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While the building of that nice, shiny, green outhouse in the center of the Yard it sure looks as though there is going to be an urgent need for some mighty thin Platoon Leaders to get inside to give out orders over the new P. A. System or is it just a Snuff...
Heard in the Yard: "Why don't we call the platoon leaders Hep Cats? . . . The latest on the wearing of Gray Uniforms is that there will not be any ready on the market until early Fall when we will be going back into blues. Then they will not be compulsory until 1944. So why worry...
Cliff O. Johnson of the Flustering Fourth Platoon is now the proud poppa of a baby girl born on May 9th. So now we can smoke again . . . George Kalionzes's wife wrote to him at last so he promises to not grow a beard to match that moustache and he will not become a hermit . . . The Navy is going to fix up Bernard Bob with a special set of flags to work right form his seat in Code so he won't have to go up to the rostrum between classes . . . The Navy Wives again urge the Lads to trip...
...Wild Westerns and G-Men films seen so far . . . An automatic "Hep-one-two-three" machine that could be strapped to a section leader's back . . . An Admiral's Tea every Saturday Afternoon about 1400 with Liberty for all who attend . . . A telephone installed in Company Easy's Platoon No. 6 Leader to comply with this request to Regimental Officer...
Because the planes could carry only a few thousand copies, we had to ask the soldiers to handle their copies with care and to pass them along. But from now on the troops in every platoon from Casablanca to the heights of Tunis will have a chance to get TIME almost as quickly as our subscribers here...