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Down a French road sped three German officers on a motorcycle and sidecar. A waiting U.S. soldier let drive at them with a rifle grenade. He had forgotten to pull the safety pin, arming the grenade for explosion...
...with a wire taped to it and going to one side of the coil and on to the aerial. The other side of the coil goes to the ground and to one side of the headset. From the other side of the headset a wire goes to the safety pin, which is driven into some wood at one end so the pin may be turned. Then the free end of the pin is moved across the unground part of the Marlin blade, and in that way you can find your station. Reception is very good and at night...
Flight Officer Jackie Coogan, back in home-town Hollywood after a tour of combat duty with the Army Air Commandos in India, cashed in on a request by letter for a date: he had fallen for a pin-up picture of eye-filling Starlet Ramsay Ames...
Chili Williams, LiFE-famed pin-up model now in Hollywood, was maybe nude, maybe not, when the Mrs. stormed into Artist Husband Earl Moran's Manhattan studio one hot day last summer. Pretty Mrs. Moran, suing unhappy Artist Earl for divorce, said that Chili was. Chili (via Western Union) said she wasn't: I AM SUGGESTING THAT YOU TAKE BACK YOUR RIDICULOUS STATEMENT ABOUT ME -AND FAST. . . . Wired back Mrs. Moran: I TAKE BACK NOTHING. I KNOW WOMEN'S UNDERTHINGS WHEN I SEE THEM. YOURS WERE STREWN ALL OVER THE STUDIO...
Major General Norman T. Kirk, U.S. Army Surgeon General, went to Battle Creek, Mich, to pin the U.S.'s second highest honor on Chaplain Hoffmann, who is convalescing in Percy Jones General Hospital. He came unscathed through the Tunisian and Sicilian campaigns, lost his left leg and suffered severe wounds in the fighting near Cassino...