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...sure I was in no position to meet my Maker. My prayers were most earnest. I asked Corporal Dorfman (this was his first flight) whether he was saying his prayers and he said he had been praying for two hours. He asked me to write something on his khaki trousers. We had written on all our trousers phone instructions to follow when we landed, and I wrote the only thing that came into my head, which was: 'God bless Corporal Dorfman on this great adventure.' I never saw a fellow as scared or as well controlled...
...glimpse of the classroom work of the GI Japanese student furnishes the best idea of Harvard's "optimum method." Speaking in Japanese, a native instructor answers the questions, also in Japanese, fired at him by the students: "Where are the Japanese troops likely to have taken refuge?" the khaki-clad American asks in the strange tongue. His knowledge of the geography of the area enables him to understand, and perhaps discount, the Jap's answer...
...orchestra was as colorful as the audience. Four American soldiers in khaki, an Australian lieutenant, a native boy and five young girls filled the chairs of some of the Society's 28 missing musicians who had been killed by the Japs or were still fighting as guerrillas in the mountains...
...favorite honeymoon spot at the turn of the century. Years ago, Boston's blueblood lawyer Robert Gray Dodge stayed there. Last week, one of its shabby, faded rooms with a wash basin in the corner was the office of his handsome, curly-blonde daughter, Lieut. Colonel Katherine ("Khaki") Dodge, 43, the U.S. Public Health Service's only woman Senior Surgeon on active relief duty...
Dirt and Starvation. Like her three sisters (one, Eleanor, used to be Warden of Vassar), tall, vigorous Khaki Dodge is lively, enterprising, hard to discourage. Arriving in Greece late last autumn to be chief medical officer for the headquarters district of the Military Government, she found herself persona non grata. The British did not like skirts on this job. So she set off for ruined Sperkheios Valley. There she found that Captain Robert Mayers of the U.S. Army had already set up three hospitals while the Germans were still theoretically in possession (TIME, Jan. 29). But the people...