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...Lake keeps the work in the family. His present wife (he met her in a California hospital, where he was recovering from rabbit fever) is his office assistant. The moving spirit of "No Work, No Woo" is a 23-year-old brunette ex-Hollywood model, Jeannine Christiansen, a daughter by his first marriage. She is a $1.32-an-hour plate burner on the graveyard shift, and by turning down a date from a shiftless worker gave her father his catchiest anti-absenteeism campaign...
...Billet Fever High...
Having filled out our fitness reports, the incidence of billet fever should become high. Many men are torn between choosing what they would like to do and what they think others would expect then to do. Some do not want to disk for shore billets because they do not want to appear to be evading combat service. Our own feeling in the matter is that each man should indicate the place and position in which he thinks he can be of greatest service to the Navy. That is the important thing and if everyone will follow that rule the overall...
...Briggs, the frantic borrowing, lending, and devouring of the hall's incredible stock of Pocket Book murder mysteries ("Death in the Dawn" challenges in popularity the latest Memo change) . . . out of all this, dank, drab and insidious, emanates a contagious disease . . . known only to Naval personnel in training . . . billet fever! One may detect the more obvious symptoms at first glance...
Manthorp also helps each man buy the right correspondent's uniform for the climate he will work in (average cost $358). He sees that they get the right inoculations against as many as nine diseases-typhoid, paratyphoid, smallpox, tetanus for everywhere-plus yellow fever and typhus for the South Pacific or Africa-plus cholera, bubonic and pulmonic plague for Asia (the tetanus inoculations alone take 42 days). And through Lloyds of London we take out a $25,000 personal insurance policy for each TIME traveler...