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...sure-fire scene describes a latrine orderly's dream, in which a fairy, using a plumber's plunger as a wand, summons Uncle Tom, Simon Legree and others from the privy. Sample gag: says a sniffing sergeant to a private, "Have you taken a bath lately?" Says the private, "Why, is one missing...
...charge of the latter demonstration were the new and retiring Officers of the Day, endots Thomas C. Palmer and Charles L. Tillery, and guard-commanders Andrew Fisher and Allen T. Webb Also in executive capacity was S. L. Kapaid, Sergeant of the Guard...
...farewell party was held last Tuesday vening in the Faculty Club by the cadre and secretaries of the Statistical School for Lieutenant Carlton L. Ericksen who is expcted to leave shortly for overseas duty, First Sergeant Eskel D. Carlson, who left on Wednesday for Camp Davis, North Carolina to attend Anti-Aircraft Artillery Officer Candidate School, and Sergeant Robert C. Purser, Jr., who will take off on Monday to the University of Mississippi, Army Administration School, Branch 1. The Statistical School will miss them greatly. All the staff has wished them the best of luck in their new assignments. Lieutenant...
...Sergeant Dennis Smith, R.A.F., stood in the doorway of his burning bomber and looked down on northern Holland. Behind him in the plane lay his friend, Flight Sergeant Ernest Salway, badly wounded, his parachute burned. Smith knew his parachute was built to carry 250 pounds, knew that two men with equipment weigh nearly twice as much. But, hoisting his wounded friend onto his back, he jumped. The chute snapped open, held-but Smith lost his grip on his friend, saw him plummet to his death. When Smith floated down to earth, he was taken prisoner. Last week, for a brave...
...Rear Admiral Ralph Davison,' assistant to the Navy's Bureau of Aeronautics, had got as far as Albuquerque (on an airline trip from Washington to Los Angeles) when a noncommissioned ferry pilot asked for a seat. Under the priority system (which Ralph Davison helped to devise) the sergeant could displace anybody but White House personnel. Admiral Davison stepped out, grinning, waited for the next plane...