PX Economics Talk from Army Letters to the Editor
Jimmy Young argues for a practical economics course for soldiers. The piece satirizes PX prices and barber service, notes payday tensions, and mocks overzealous check lending. It also parodies film hype and music snobbery in a wartime Army context.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
California
Oklahoma
Shylock
Claude Duval
Sec’y
War Information Center
Joe
Henry L. Stimson
le Ye
Stan Williams
Tschaikowsky
Bach
Schubert
Chopin
Haydn
Sinatra
Como
Haymes
Army Command
New Scribe Takes Over Tex Acts Column at Sheppard Field
May 11 issue marks T Sgt Earl W Dunn as the new Tex acts writer with S Sgt Polek departing. The Zebra Dept notes TDY noncoms at Sheppard Field aiding operations and lists contacts. Project Matrimony links Jackie Holloway and Lt. stationed here, and Pfc William Crook weds Miss Mary Nelson. Several personnel items follow, including awards and humorous vignettes, ending with thanks from the outgoing scribe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joe E
Doc
Polek
Earl W. Dunn
Buddy
Army
NCO Club
Texacts
ZEBRA
Sheppard Field
Ivan EK. Gross
William J. Cooper
Joseph Sharp
James D. Williams
Jake Martindade
Jackie
Holloway
William Crook
Texas
Mary Nelson
Kentucky
M. Set
Earl R. Roberts
Bee
Albert D. Bomba
Honey
James Medlock
Beulah
Howard Gagnon
Claire
Ed Calligan
Martha Jean Walling
Sam Harris
Okinawa
Fred
Williams
Buddy Baer
Billy Hesson
Mess 2
Miss Margie Sims
PX 12
Ray Hugh Woods
Tinker Field
George Kessel
Foytek
Rosie O’grady Kilroy
Hamilton Sickles
Ruth Platt
Wichita Falls
U. S
Donnie J. Steadman
Roland Lilies
AUS
Sqdn
Melvin Register
Waureka
Sheppard
Bess Huntley
Fellows
Marlow Mouse’s Moon Adventure Becomes Green Cheese Mystery
A rambunctious mouse from a Greenwich Village garret turns an adventure into a space voyage seeking the moon’s cheese. After rocket antics and a crash landing, Marlow discovers the moon is green cheese and ends up a film star at MGM studios as Supermouse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greenwich Village
Marlow
Marlow Mouse
Father Mouse
Moon
Earth
M-G-M
Supermouse
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Jimmy Young
Jim Young
Barbara Stanwyck
Warner
South Sea Islands
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