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When she came to her first meal with her husband's family, and found the lower floors of the great house lit with candles that they could not afford, and the huge chandelier in the center hall twinkling with a starry brilliance as it was lighted in her honor...
The place was colorful. Mostly it was boring, but it was colorful sometimes. The sergeants, of course, come out on top in that category. Colorful? . . .! Sergeants have been written about by so many wistful draftees of World War II that they're as trite as KP, but the fact approach...
Out in the South Pacific U.S. fighter forces fly patrols with several types of aircraft. Army pilots may fly top cover in Lightnings. Several thousand feet below them ride the Warhawks. Lowest of all will be the Marine flyers in Wildcats. In a situation like that, it is possible for...
The Constant Nymph (Warner) is a little hoary at the temples. It was in vogue 19 years ago, has been twice filmed. But Margaret Kennedy's pathetic story about an adolescent girl's unrequited love for a middle-aging, married composer still exhales a tender, wistful charm.
Here at Briggs while you are reading this article, 135 singing WAVES are revelling in the newest words to an old familiar song: "IN ONE MORE WEEK AND NO MORE DAYS we'll be out of the callaboose--and though you won't believe it, mates, they're going to...