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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.
g~ a/, .f ;,/e The "living Room" of larraclts N
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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