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This week the Defense Secretary moved his duffel from the Navy Building to an eight-room office suite (reception room, dining room, kitchen, etc.) in the Pentagon. His top lieutenants got busy completing their staffs. The White House was ready to announce the appointment of a new Assistant Secretary...
Next morning I brought my baggage to the hotel. A character said: "Baggage, sir," and he picked up my duffel bag and musette and carried things for me for a change, after 40 months of my carrying everything from toilet paper to bedrolls for my "superior" officers. It certainly was wonderful. Now for civilian clothes...
...have always maintained that address should be changed, and here is a substantiating case. Coming from Brigg's Cage last Monday, Lt. Salmon discovered an apprentice seaman in the center of the field, equipped with duffel bag, typewriter, and other accessories of "Haavaad" war. After all, his orders did say "Soldiers Field," and orders are orders, after...
...since the fall of la patrie in 1940 had the sons of France faced the Boche on the Western Europe mainland. Now, they mixed with the enemy in fierce night skirmishes, took startled, scared German prisoners. They used American weapons, wore American uniforms with French helmets.* But in their duffel bags some of them carried the worn army tunics of the Third Republic: they would put them on the day they returned to France...
...Father Sousa. He did more than anyone else to give "strangers the impression that we were engaged in a constant celebration of Bastille Day." Father was a sportsman, with "a special fondness for equipment." A trail of duffel bags and duck decoys filled the Sousa hallways. "All the best closets were quickly filled with sleeping bags, tents, canteens, fishing rods, tackle boxes. . . ." Father had a passion for the society of policemen, for presiding on committees. "After the first couple of months [he] virtually ran Chilapa, although not necessarily by consent of the inhabitants...