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Writers' Camp. In Camp Rucker, Ala., busy Sergeant Russell E. Harris kept up his newsy, three-letter-a-week correspondence with his wife, a busy WAC corporal in a barracks 300 yards away...
...Stockport, England, slim, hard, bronzed Sergeant Henry ("Harry") Worsley returned home after two years at war. He had fought from El Alamein to Salerno, been twice wounded, won the Military Medal. He had two weeks' leave...
Most disappointed man of the week, however, is not Croonersinatra but rather the marine sergeant who was letting the dishes rot, the barracks fester, and the girls alone in anticipation of the arrival of the romantic singer. Happiest were the microphones in the R.K.O. theatres which will now be clung to and loved for as long as the chain pays possibly into the five figures for the vaunted services of the caveman...
Tiger was a mere wisp of a man, but he had no intention of taking a ribbing from some Ivy League Privates. So he got mean and wrathful and sent some of the boys to see the mess sergeant because their beds were a quarter of an inch from the crack in the floor that stood as the great divide. Two nights later we ate Tiger. Not literally, of course, but it was delicious. In the midst of a black and tortured night march, we broke into a sombre dirge. "Hold that Tiger, rrrrrrooomph, hold that Tiger, rrrrromph. The Tiger...
...broken man: two shattered shoulders, two knees with floating cartilages, one cracked pelvis, one crushed hand. Causes: sports and fights from prep school on. When he first came up for the Army physical, Tufts was classified 1-B. He asked what that might mean. "It means," snarled a sergeant, "you can relieve one WAC for active service." The next time up, Sonny again recited his litany of disabilities. A draft official asked, "What do you do?" Tufts said that he worked for Paramount. "Oh," nodded the official, "stunt man." Said an attendant, as Tufts went...