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...last week, brunette, green-eyed Rebel Randall (who was born Alaine Brandes 29 years ago in Chicago) was a top radio and pin-up attraction on such far-flung military networks as the Mosquito (Guadalcanal), the Far Eastern (Japan and Korea), the Jungle (New Guinea) and the Bedside (military hospitals). Her five-day-a-week show is beamed to more than two million members of the armed forces and some 80 million foreign listeners-in. She gets 1,000 letters a month from G.l.s, asking for pinups, making requests for favorite records and offering her everything from marriage to captured...
...Wozzeck is a captain's batman who offers himself to the sardonic and sadistic regimental doctor as a physiological demonstration piece for the doctor's lectures. Wozzeck's purpose is to earn enough money to support his girl, Marie, and their child. But, tormented and ridiculed, Guinea Pig Wozzeck begins to have hallucinations. When his girl is seduced by a strutting drum major, Wozzeck mutters confusedly about "sin"; he stabs Marie, throws the knife into a pond. Then, in fear of discovery, he wades into the pond to recover the shining blade, but slips and drowns...
Stephen Romney Maurice Gill, 65, is a third-generation missionary, has worked in New Guinea since he was ordained a deacon 42 years ago in the Church of England. In 1938 he became the Archdeacon of Mamba...
...would return, he replied, and promptly set off for New Guinea. Last week, the Church Times had news to announce about Archdeacon Gill. Stephen Romney Maurice Gill was back at his post, and his parishioners, in their joy, had elected him chief of the tribe. "No white man," said the Times, "has ever before been so honored...
Brigadier General Joseph S. Bradley, 50, commander of 25th Division: West Point, 1918; stationed in Philippines and China in 1920's and 1930's; chief of staff, 32nd Division, commander 126th Infantry Regiment in New Guinea, World War II; postwar service in the Pacific and at Fort Benning, Ga.; went to Korea as assistant commander of 25th Division...