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...little things that count-the piano set up in an old auto showroom in Algiers, the county-fair smell of hamburgers rising amid the Oriental smells of New Delhi, the Wild West movies in the jungles of New Caledonia. Morale, too, means keeping in touch with home. Has the sergeant's baby been born? The Red Cross will find out. Did the Corporal forget his sister's birthday? The Red Cross will send a message...
...last week the bungalow where Homer Sanders has his headquarters was quiet except for the routine chatter of typewriters. Suddenly a sergeant rushed upstairs shouting: "Red alert!" Men clattered downstairs. Telephones jangled. The radio in the control room crackled...
Killed in Action. Master Sergeant Meyer Levin, 26, bombardier for the late Colin Kelly, first U.S. hero of World War II; in a Flying Fortress crash off Port Moresby. Onetime stock clerk in a New York City warehouse, handsome Mike Levin joined the Army on his 23rd birthday, flew with Kelly on his last mission, served at Corregidor before he went to Australia, was Brooklyn's No. 1 air hero...
...young U.S. poets who add new chapters to the modernist testimony are Karl Jay Shapiro, 29, and Randall Jarrell, 28. Shapiro, drafted into the army in 1941, is on duty as a sergeant somewhere in the southwest Pacific. Baltimore-born, poverty-wise, he is a Jew who has lived outside the pale in a democracy that often proudly kids itself that it erects no pales. At the University of Virginia, which he attended only long enough to leave in disgust, he decided that
SIREN IN THE NIGHT-Leslie Ford- Scribner ($2). Colonel Primrose, Sergeant Buck and the fluttery Mrs. Grace Latham are here concerned with a cyaniding job in San Francisco-a well-groomed, romantic, chilling tale in the best Ford style...