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Fatigue Cases. These are the men whose vague but very real ailment the Army diagnoses as "fatigue, whatever that is"-jitters, insomnia, loss of confidence and weight. One tense veteran of 39 missions was a hard nut to crack until the flight surgeon invited him out on a double date with two sisters who had a pilot brother. On finding the girls understood his language, the flyer began to talk about his combat experience, about seeing his friends crack up. After that he went back to the center, got three good nights' sleep, played 18 holes of golf...
Back in Bisbee, Ariz., Benko's marksmanship was no surprise. He had always been a "gun nut," owned eleven weapons, reloaded his own ammunition. Long before he thumbed a machine gun, he was a champion rifle shot. Home-towners recognized his virtuosity: when he enlisted he was president of the Bisbee Rifle Club...
...lives and habits of U.S. defense workers. The film's central characters are Good Girl Maisie Revere (Miss Sothern in her sixth Maisie picture) and Bad Girl Iris (Jean Rogers). They are sidelighted by a cocky test pilot, for whom Maisie falls hard, and by a bolt & nut man-the chinny type who assures every new girl in the plant that he knows all the angles...
...boost the morale of women war workers. She gets her unbound hair caught in the plant machinery and is fired. She sobs Maisie out of $20 and her fiance out of $100, steals Maisie's suitcase, slip and nylons. Then she departs with the bolt & nut man for the Cottonwood Apartments, where "opium smoking is not permitted in the corridors." When Maisie tries to prevent this assignation, Iris denounces her for sabotage. But Iris winds up with a wastebasket rammed over her head, while Maisie winds up in the arms of her airman...