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Carolyn Bigham graduated from Central High School in Charlotte, N.C. last year, just before her 19th birthday, and went to work in the flower department of a local store. Last month Carolyn had survived a grave illness and was just finishing grammar school again...
When Captain Fisby agrees to accept a couple of native "souvenirs," and they turn out to be two little geisha girls named First Flower and Lotus Blossom, he thinks his career is cooked. But the men of his village, usually appalled at the prospect of hard work, are so charmed by the geishas that they enthusiastically pitch in to build them a proper teahouse. To do so, it is necessary to scrounge and improvise, and soon Captain Fisby, who is weak on Army directives but strong on old-fashioned initiative, finds himself supervising a complex business combine. His once-sleepy...
...White Flowers & Dyed Paper. One day last week the G.I.s and the workers of Andong tightened their last bolt. The laborers swept the bridge and the Andong fire department gave it a good hosing down. The bridge railings were festooned with strips of G.I. toilet paper dyed red, white & blue. On a wooden platform near the Andong end of the bridge sat Engineer Tandy and local dignitaries, including indefatigable County Chieftain Lee. Behind the wooden platform sat the G.I. engineers and their Korean fellow workers, each wearing in the buttonhole of his fatigue shirt the day's badge...
...English heavyweights who are flattened by middle-aged American bartenders have earned the gratitude of our country. If once we started to feel that the process should be reversed, that middle-aged English bartenders should stretch the flower of American manhood on blood-blotted canvas, then we should indeed be in danger of losing our ineffable consciousness of inevitable superiority...
Porter's Apprentice. Weinberg started his climb to the top when he was ten years old. One of eleven children of a Brooklyn furrier, he went to work selling papers, soon became a "flower & feather horse," i.e., a delivery boy for women's hats. He went to Wall Street during the 1907 Panic, earned $5 a day for saving places in lines outside banks that depositors thought would fail. Then he got a job ("assistant to the porter") with Goldman, Sachs...