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Lieut. Jackie Coogan, 30, Hollywood's onetime "Kid" who grew up to marry Betty Grable (and be divorced by her) was released from the Army after four years' service, mostly with glider troops. Acquired in that time: the Air Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster and a Presidential Unit Citation. Lost: more hair...
Outraged Dignity. Says Barmine: "My sense of personal dignity was revolted by the alternatives: to submit to kid napping or to walk out. After the stories I had just heard, I knew what was in store for me. I had to decide where I would be of most help to the Russian people - perishing in one of Stalin's prisons or living as a free man somewhere in the world, knowing the truth and speaking it out." Non-Russian readers may wonder why the choice was so difficult...
Married. Julius ("Groucho") Marx, 54, gabbiest of the lady-ogling Marx Brothers; and Catherine Mavis Gorcey, 24, singing starlet and ex-wife of deadpan Dead End Kid Leo Gorcey; both for the second time; in Hollywood...
...Japs know Admiral William Frederick Halsey, to their sorrow. They know him as the Annapolis-trained Dead End Kid who calls the Japs monkeys, whose battle cry is "Kill Japs, kill Japs, and then kill more Japs." They also know him as the calculating, chance-taking seaman who coolly gambled on disaster in the Philip pines invasion last fall to send his fleet north and destroy most of the surviving carriers of the Japanese fleet...
...Scott] is like a kid who can't be captain, so he quits and hopes the team will lose every game. I should be sore, but I'm not. Fighting with Scott is more fun than going to see Oklahoma...