War Prisoners Find Escape in Camp Theater and Life
A Washington analysis examines prisoner of war life in German camps. POWs use theater and games to cope, with the Kriegie Times in Stalag Luft III noting performances of Charlie’s Aunt and Our Town. Red Cross packages and homeletters sustain morale amid limited space and strict censorship.
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Germany
War Department
The
Red Cross
Reich
International
Kipling
Webster
Kriegie Times
Stalag Luft III
Sagan
Theater
Our Town
Tobacco Road
Stalingrad
Fleger
Flieger
Kriegie
Army
New York
Philadelphia
St. Louis
Marseille
Switzerland
Lisbon
BRIEFS. POW DIETS AND MILKWEED HARVEST DRIVE
Special diet packages reach German POW hospitals and transit camps for captured soldiers. Many German POWs in Normandy offer help with harvests in Britain. Major youth groups join a drive to recruit school age milkweed pullers to supply fiber for life jackets.
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Normandy
Great Britain
Guest columnists to fill Walter Winchell’s column
This month the Walter Winchell column will be conducted by guest columnists as replacements for his absence. The arrangement brings fresh voices to the popular feature while Winchell is away.
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Walter Winchell
Lady Learn to Cook or Your GI Will Go Home to the Army
Captain Ben Irvin Butler argues Army KP can be a warmer, respected detail not a punishment. He notes soldiers seek good cooking, the kitchen’s role in camps, and evolving tastes as U S servicemen value fresh bread and gourmet inquiries rise amid wartime rationing.
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Zora Layman
Air Corps
Society of Amateur Chefs
New York
Kaypee
Joe
Bill Rhode
Gourmet
Bill
John Piper
South Pacific
Army
Fragmentary Dialogue on Marriage and Upright Suitor
The passage features Elmer proposing marriage and a reply that the future husband must be upright. A quip about desiring a piano instead of a husband underscores the tensions in choosing a mate. The OCR text is garbled but hints at a social exchange about suitors and criteria for a spouse.
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Elmer
Country doctor on rounds saves Home Guard in road
A country doctor stops to help a Home Guard lying in apparent agony on the road. He asks where the pain is. the guard replies there is none and quips the road is a deep river he can only swim on his back. Three boastful youths compare heights, each claiming taller measurements with hat and umbrella.
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Washington, Digest
WNU Service
Union Trust Building
Washington, D. C
Yank
Bankhage
Corp
Harvey H. Powell
China
Stanley C. Phillips
Dayton
Ohio
James FP. Boyle
Boston
Mass
France
Toulon
Bans
Salween River
Burma Road
Omar Bradley
U. S
St. Brice
Alexander Bakter
Pittsburgh
Brest
Ben Irvin Butler
Amateur Chefs
V . Gott
Old England
Tom
Harry
Roosevelt
Iver ‘Valley
Metro State
Los Angeles
California
Salt Lake
West Broadway
Salt Lake City
Utah
Race
Mae
Mivia de
Je Havilland
Ex Bros
King’s Heralds
Redio Bible
Peetucur
Conus Kuta — Kovo — Keub
KOH— Ksei
Calif
CmeSes
Lydia
Bulben
Lydia E. Pinkham
Sarai
Aay
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