Word: riley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...agers who had been snatched into the Army just as the war was ending. While the rest of the U. S. was scrambling for the delights of peace, he was still in uniform, sweating out the end of his hitch, forgotten by everyone but his own family. At Fort Riley, Kansas, TIME Correspondent James Bell spent a day with Corporal Gordon Monson, a big, pink-cheeked 19-year-old from tiny Hoimen, Wis. Correspondent Bell's report...
...Riley enlisted men's club. "The hostess tries her best," he explained, "but it's a pretty dull place." Aside from the movies, a couple of 3.2 beer parlors and a bowling alley, "Junk Town" isn't much better. The Army life is still a lonely life and the corner of Sixth and Washington at 10 p.m. is still a pretty lonely corner, as lonely as thousands of corners known by thousands of U.S. soldiers...
...Fort Riley soldiers soon learn that it does no good to whistle at Junk Town girls-they can't be had. Monson and his friends have noticed the return of the old civilian belief that soldiers are bums who haven't got the brains to be anything else. No one seems to remember that they were drafted. Nice girls, who once thought it smart and patriotic to be seen with soldiers (preferably an officer), now just say: "On your way, dogface...
First period--Corker (Preston), 0:16; Farrell (Crocker), 1:50; J. Riley (Sanders), 12:08; Mather (Cunliffe), 14:45; Warburton (Mather, Thayer), 19:53. Penalties--Plliam, W. Riley. Ayres, 2; Gebelein, Farrell, Tilghman...
...Life of Riley (Sat. 8 p.m., NBC), as led by William Bendix, a choice if rather special comedian...