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THE MASTHEAD,  SATURDAY,  JULY  21,  1945           PAGE  7
       Hollywood Pin-up P•r•de                          • • •                       CROSS-WORD


                                                                          ACROSS                  DOWN
                                                                    1- Maintain            1- Moor
                                                                    7-Essay                2-Unruffled
                                                                   13- Heavenly drink      3-Perfumes
                                                                   14- Feel compassion     4-------0reek  E
                                                                   15--0riginate           5-Value
                                                                   16-Fleet of ships       6-Sea cucumber
                                                                   17- Biddy               7...:._Barter
                                                                   18-Lyric poem           8-Hither
                                                                   20---British title      9-Tree
                                                                   21-Upon                10-Salt
                                                                   23-Fruit drink         11.:.__Redskin
                                                                   24- Wild  hog          12- Astral
                                                                   25- Answer             19-Strange
                                                                   27- Humorous           22- Theatre  production
                                                                   28-Work unit           24-Explode
                                                                   29-Mongrel             26-Native mineral
                                                                   30- Frighten           27- Animal  skin
                                                                   33-Bouquet             29- Tiara
                                                                   37- Rodent             30- Thinly scattered
                                                                   38-Equality            31- TiP.
                                                                   39-Trolley             32-Stress
                                                                   1.0-A bow              33-Wheel part
                                                                   41- Hearsay            34--Stir up
                                                                   43-Eyeball             35- Attic
                                                                   44- Coat               36- Hot  coals
                                                                   46- "Great outdoors"   38-Soup
                                                                   48-Upper House         41- Network
                                                                   49- Rubber             42- Unusual                         (Solution  on  Page 5)
                                                                   50---Chief course      45- Remote
                                                                   51- Dogmas             47-Color                             - Courtesy Dell Publishing Co.

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                                                                     A  captain  ordered  a  steak,  rare.
                                                                   It  came  out  rare,  very  rare.  The
                                                                   officer  demanded _it be  taken  back
                                                                   and  cooked.
                                                                     "It's  already cooked,"  the waiter
                                                                   snapped.
                                                                     "Cooked,   hell,"   retorted  the
                                                                   Captain.  I've seen cows hurt worse
                                                                   than  that  and  they  got  well."
        ART  LOVERS  will  appreciate  this  beautiful  shot  of  two  fine  old
       Grecian  urns.  Their  graceful  symmetry  has  long  been  the  model  for   □   □
        pottery  makers  the  world  -over.  But the  kind  of  graceful  symmetry  we   "Atten-shun,"  barked the  Sp(A)
       would like to see  rriore ,of is that -of beautifully proportioned  Miss Jeanne  to  the  awkward  squad.  "Lift  up
        Crain. So we're going to see  "State Fair," Jeanne's forthcoming  picture,
       over and  over and over ..                                  your  left  leg  and  hold  it  straight
                                                                    out in  front of you."
                                                                     By mistake one  boot held up  his
       Eyrich  Shuts  Out  Fleet      Hono'rable Dischargees        right leg, which brought it out next
                                      Mav Wear Uniforms            to  his  neighbor's  left leg.
       City;  Gunners  Win  3-0                                      "All  right,  all right,"  roared the
                                      Until  Arrival  at Home      Sp(A)  "who's  the  wise  guy  there
         Armed Guard made  a  successful   Contrary  to  the  current  belief  holding  up  both legs?"   ·
       beachhead  on Fleet City S_aturday,   that the uniform  may be  worn for
      •  as  Gunner  chucker  Eyrich  shut  90  days  after  honorable  discharge   □   □
       out  the  bluejackets  from  Shoe-  from  the  Navy,  even  though  the   Navy Seabees have been credited
       maker,  3-0.                  discharged  person  reaches  home   with  doing  so  many  impossible
         It  was  an  errorless  ball  game  before the expiration of that period,   things  that  we  think  this  defini-
                                                                   tion we  ran  across  is  appropriate:  THIS  HOME-LIKE  ATMOSPHERE  is  open  during  the  day  and  until
       for  both  teams.  Fleet  City  had  it has been pointed out that it may                  2~00  in the evening for the men of  Barracks  N.  Built under the sponsor-
                                                                   "A Seabee is a  soldier in a  sailor's
       been  resting  in  third  place  of  the  be  worn  only  until  the  serviceman          ship  of  the  Welfare  Divisi-on  of  Ta-dcen,  a,nd  constructed  by  the  Public
                                                                   uniform with marine training doing   Works Department, it is the first of a series of new recreation halls to be
       12th  Naval  District  standings  but  oz:  woman  reaches  home.   a  civilian  job  for  WPA  wages."   finished. The lounge  is complete with 400  books,  games,  radio,  and writ-
       their  loss  dropped · them  a  notch,   In clarifying the provision of the               ing  materials.
       and  elevated  the  fast  rising  Gun- "Protection  of  the  Uniform  Act"   □   □
       ners to a  tie for sixth.     which  provides  that  an  honorably   SKlc: "Can you see all right?"
                                                                     SKlc: "Is there a  draft on you?"  Barracks N Has  New Recreation  Lounge;
         Armed Guard scored once  in the  discharged  person  may  wear  his   Wave:  "Yes."
       third  and  twice  in  the  seventh.  uniform  from  the  place  of  dis-
       Eyrich,  winning twirler,  stopped  a  charge  to  his  home  "within  three   Wave:  "No."
       Fleet  City  rally  in the  sixth when  months"  after  the  date  of  dis-  SKlc:  "Is  your  seat  nice  and   First of Many to  Be  Completed
       he  forced  Kahle,  who  had  beat  a   charge, the Judge Advocate General  comfortable ? "
       slow  roller  to  first.  This  was  the   has held that the uniform  may not   Wave:  "Very."   A home-like atmosphere has been  built  in  the  barracks  of  Treasure
       only time a  Fleet City man got past   be  worn  after  arrival  home,  even   SKlc:  "Let's  trade  seats."   added  to  Barracks  N.  Although  Island,  although  others  are  in  th~
       second  base.                 though the three-months period has       □     □            officially  listed as merely a  "recre- completion  stage.  The  others  are
                                     not expired.                  Help  Wanted  Dept.           ation  lounge,"  it  has  a  library  of  being  built  in  Barracks  188-191,
                                       It may , however,  be worn on ap-  A  friend  of  ours,  after  waiting  over  four  hundred  books,  writing  195-200,  and  203-214  inclusive.  At
         A  fellow  put a  red  ration  token
       in the juke box and got "One Meat   propriate occasions of ceremony, at  half  an  hour  for  a  street  car,  set- materials,  and  all  sorts  of  games  the  same  time,  one  is  being  built
                                     drills  or  when  performing  author- tled  impatiently  in  a  front  seat.  which are  available  to  Barracks N  at  the  Transportation  Pool.  The
       Ball."
                                     ized training duties.         But  the  car  ambled  along  jerkily,  sailors during their free hours  any  Welfare  Division  of  Tadcen  has
                                                                   the  operator  applying  the  brakes  tin:ie  of  the  day  or  evening.   sponsored  the  purchasing  of  the
                                       A  boatswain's  mate  was  stand- full  force  at the  slightest provoca-  The hall, which can accommodate  furniture,  while  the  Public  Works
                                     ing in line at ship's service  waiting  tion,  nearly  pitching  the  riders  to  upwards to sixty men at a  time and  department,  with  collateral  funds,
                                     to  buy  perfume  for  his  wife,  a  the floor.            is  visited  by  some  four  to  five  will  furnish  the  balance  of  equip'-
                                     Navy nurse, when a  woman pushed   "Say,  can't you go a  little faster  hundred sailors daily,  is finished in  ment  necessary  for  completion.
                                     in ahead of him.  "Excuse me," said  and  stop  a  little  slower?"  asked  colonial  style  pine  with  log-cabin  Sailors  from  their  respective  bar-
                                     the sailor,  "but I  was here first."   our passenger. "I'm twenty minutes  boards  around  the  bulkheads.  The  racks form working parties and do
                                       "My  husband  is  an  officer,"  the  late  for  the  dentist."   furniture,  including  settees,  desks,  most  of  the  construction  work
                                     woman  retorted.                "Well,  you  see  this  is  the  first  chairs,  and divan  sets,  are finished  themselves.
                                       "What's  his  rank ?"  the  sailor  time  I've  driven  one  of  these  in the same fashion as are the bulk-
                                     wanted  to  know.             things,"  the  operator  explained  heads  and  library  shelves.
                                       "He's  an ensign."          casually.  "I'm really a  bookkeeper,  First  of  Many        Definition  of  the  Week:  Income
                                       "Too_ bad,"  said  the  BM,  "My  but  the  regular  man  didn't  show   This recreation lounge  is the first  Tax-Playing  Truth  or  Conse-
                                     wife's  a  lieutenant."       up  this morning  so  here  I  am."   to be finished  of the several  being  quences  the  hard way.

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