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...operations shack of Seoul airport, a stocky little U.S. first lieutenant checked over his flight papers and manifest, then turned to leave. He zipped up his blue nylon flight jacket and cracked, "One more milk run." It was an old phrase that was being heard more & more. He clamped a cold and soggy cigar butt between his teeth, and strode out across the apron toward his big, twin-boom C-119 Flying Box Car for another round trip to Japan. There was no telling how many more he would make...
...been on a bat for nearly a week." He finished his drink and sauntered out the door into the arms of a waiting plainclothesman. At the station, without even bothering to question him, the police sent him straight to Las Heras penitentiary where he was issued the grey pants, jacket and cap of an Argentine convict and thrown into a cell. Seventeen days later, he was suddenly freed...
Without the B-O-M accolade (and the jacket reminder that Phillips is really Marquand Jr.), the book might have been noted only as a mildly wry comedy of bad manners that borrows much of its tone from F. Scott Fitzgerald and most of its technique from that smooth architect of fiction, Pulitzer Prizewinner John P. (for Phillips) Marquand...
...casualty lay. The wounded man's helmet had fallen over his face; blood oozed from a jagged hole in his breast. Irwin concentrated on all the things he had been taught to do. "Take it easy, Mac," said Corpsman Rietz as he ripped open the blood-soaked flak jacket and pressed dressings on the wound. "You're going to be all right...
...much of The General's Wench is devoted to bedroom doings that it easily gives the impression of being just one more piece of execrably written pornography. It says on the jacket, however, that Rosamond (Kitty) Marshall's real intention is to portray "the fabulously rich 18th century days of the East India Company . . . one of the most stimulating periods in all history...