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...have known Ben Lear since he began his career in the U.S. Army, as a sergeant in the First Colorado Volunteer Infantry in the Philippines. His rise from such a start to his present position speaks for his devotion to the service, and his qualities as a soldier. Now he has a job to do, and is doing it in his own way, and who should know a better way ? . . . HARRY J. AMPHLETT...
...card had been received fortnight before by a professional soldier, Sergeant William Lester White of Fort Benning, Ga. Sergeant White read it. boiled over, then sent the card with a letter to General George C. Marshall, an old friend. What caused Sergeant White to boil over was the card's message: "Write today to President Roosevelt . . . that you are against our entry into the European war. (Signed) Senator Burton K. Wheeler...
Organizer and leader of the band is Sergeant Herbert Bernfeld, who as Herbie Fields used to play tenor saxophone and clarinet in Raymond Scott's Quintet. Among the band's 14 other members. Tin Pan Alleymen all, are Private Morton Kahn, who led and pounded the piano in Gerry Morton's Society Band; Private Don Matteson, trombonist for Jimmy Dorsey; Private James Morreale, Paul Whiteman trumpeter; Private Sidney Macey, the late Hal Kemp's arranger and trumpeter...
...Sergeant York (Warner). Twenty-three years ago a good-natured, redheaded, gangling young hillbilly from Tennessee's Cumberland Mountains joined the Big Parade and headed for Europe with the 82nd Division of the A.E.F. His name was Alvin Cullum York, and the way he could handle a Springfield was a caution. Originally a conscientious objector, he had overcome his religious scruples against killing to go abroad and put a stop...
...height of the Battle of the Meuse-Argonne, Corporal York, his sergeant and 15 men were ordered to wipe out a hillful of German machine-gun nests. Maneuvering to outflank the enemy, they stumbled on a field headquarters and captured 20 German officers and men. A burst of machine-gun fire cut down half of York's companions. The corporal thereupon, singlehanded, picked off 20 machine-gunners-enough to persuade the entire 35-gun salient to surrender. York and seven survivors marched 132 prisoners to the rear...