Private's life in the army from a feature editor
Edward Thom Marion Lawton Hargrove of the Charlotte News offers practical guidance to recruits awaiting induction. He advises painting the town red and keeping an open mind during the first hard weeks. He has received his induction notice and reports the first day at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.
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Edward Thom Marion Lawton Hargrove
Charlotte
N. C
Mare Grove
Fort Drage
N. Carolina
Piel
Atlanta
Melvin Piel
Big Jim Wart
Hollywood
Hargrave
Draft Board
Alabama
Army of the United States
Goldenberg
Army
Charlotte News
Hargrove
Editorial Worker
I Was a Private in the Army's Reception Center
A narrator details the chaotic first days in the Army, from oathtaking to the dispensary, sorting clothes, and brutal KP shifts. He and fellow recruits endure tests, misfits, and mockery, culminating in classification as cooks at the Field Artillery Replacement Center.
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Conrad
Wilson
Jack Mulligan
Field Artilery Replacement Center
Gene Shumate
Congress
Notable Hollywood Fringes Echo War Era Media
New Yorkers discuss Richard Tregaskin returning with a new manuscript and sizable Canal royalties, Herbert Clyde Lewis’ writing career at the Herald Tribune and Story Magazine, and Cosmo Polititan’s 300 word assignment. CBS assigns 24 hour overseas readiness. 20th Century Fox buys Lewis piece for 25000 with subsequent studio work at 750 per day. Cesar Romero joins Coast Guard as vice and gambling series planned.
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Richard Tregaskin
INS
Canal
Harvard
Herbert Clyde Lewis
Herald
The
Mags
Whit Burnett
Story Magazine
Lewis
20Th Century Fox
Jimmy Durante
Cosmopolitan
Jan Valtin
Mr. Whiskers
Famous football men speak on Notre Dame Columbia and Army
Trank Leahy of Notre Dame, Lou Little of Columbia, and Grantland Rice discuss plans for the upcoming season. Leahy expects a fair Notre Dame squad with Navy additions and seeks Army games in New York. Little envisions a capable, locally-sourced team, while Rice notes building the best possible squad for the sport’s value.
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Trank Leahy
Notre Dame
Navy
Army
New York
Lou Little
Columbia
Carolinas to Play Football Amid Strong College Group
Carolinas field a robust football plan with NC State and other nearby colleges, eyeing tough matchups against Navy and Army. Yale notes Harvard’s sport retreat won’t derail a lively season, while Army stresses a lean squad but high morale and discipline drive success.
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Herman Hickman
North Carolina State
Carolinas
North Carolina
Duke
Wake Forest
Clemson
Tennessee
Georgia Tech
Navy
Army
Ted Blair
Yale
Harvard
Howie Odell
Red Blaik
Football Beyond Any Other Single Game
The article argues football holds unique competitive value among sports, noting boxing and calisthenics as other strong fitness activities. It discusses pro football plans for fall, players’ conditioning, attendance trends in cities like Philadelphia and Washington, and potential effects of drafting married men with children on football compared to baseball.
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Navy
Army
Philadelphia
Washington
Historical quiz Q&A on Celestials and wills wind
The answers: Celestials were Chinese. The williwaw is Alaska's fierce unpredictable wind that disrupts plans. The bloodiest year cited is 1942 with about 2,000,000 war deaths that year. About 250,000 veterans of the last war are engaged in the present one. Home of the kafirs is South Africa.
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Alaska
South Africa
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