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...tidal wave on the morning after his mad dash to get there. Reporting to the cadet adjutant, he got this greeting: "Wipe that smile off, Mr. Dumbjohn, or whatever your name is! Brace up! Suck up your guts! More! Get rid of that gabardine coat! Get those shoulders back! Pull your chin in! Further! Further! Where 're you from? The Navy? What part of the Navy? Oh, Annapolis, eh? . . ." The next few minutes of scorn were enough to wither an asbestos monkey...
...discussed what little we had read about jumping-to try to get your back to the wind before you hit-to loosen your buckles before landing in water-to cover your face if landing in trees-not to pull the ripcord until you had counted ten. The big question in all minds was: 'Will my chute open?' That is a terrible question...
...propaganda shows, Quinn says, "We have better audience reaction, we get more fan mail, our Crossley [listener rating] goes up." His explanation: listeners are already interested in the subjects. To test the program's pull, Fibber & Co. were given exclusive rights to one OWI plug, an appeal for merchant seamen. The War Shipping Administration said that "responses doubled the next...
...knife and cut off her stays, slapped her face and pushed her into an empty loft, threatening to cut her throat if she cried out. She was kept in the loft for four weeks, living on water and crusts of bread, till at last she mustered courage to pull the boards from a nailed-up window and climb...
...Jungle Story. Unpredictable as ever, the defenders chose to abandon their excellent beach defenses and pull back to the hills. Troops quickly worked up toward the dense undergrowth where the first Japanese opposition began. Then the battle steadied down to the usual drudging Southwest Pacific jungle fight, with the Aussies working diligently to erase each individual Jap. At some points the advance was slowed by electrically-controlled Jap minefields. But by this week the Aussies had reached the town of Tarakan and captured the island airfield two miles away...