Word: sergeant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After serving a stint in the garment center as a delivery boy at $6 a week, and turning over stones when opportunity offered, young Segal went off to World War II. "I was a corporal twice and a sergeant once, but I went in and came out a private. I don't get along with people-only slugs." In 1946 he hitchhiked across country to enter the University of Southern California on the G.I. Bill, got his doctorate in zoology at U.C.L.A. "My girl friend was studying embryology. We met over a pig embryo, and so we got married...
...around Alameda, Calif., his aunt ran a dancing school, and the Depression saw him doing soft-shoe routines at small theaters to help buy the family groceries. World War II dumped him into the 84th Division, where the commanding general, Alexander Boiling, used to join Sergeant Ford in little skits. Chances are they also burdened Phil with his present style of humor. Sample...
...General: Sergeant Ford, why don't you go home...
...Sergeant: I can't go home, sir. My mother and father are fighting...
...Sergeant: That's what they're fighting about...