European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 13, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Yank the army weekly 1945 and who responsible for this dust Arv Camp about Mary Brown this has not been much of a War for songs that Rev up the heartbeat and slap at the heels and Spur clerks and tank men to leap out of Foxholes marching exult Antly to irresistible we have simply had a few Workmanlike ditties that dutifully convey the mood of some sol Diers arid most of these seem to have been penned by a ready a Hollywood tunesmith named Frank who has to his credit such confections As in my arms and Praise the lord and pass the Frank does Good and if someone has to be called the Irving Berlin of this War it might As Well be he As anyone i would How to conduct a Little Community sing today on the subject of his latest a Ballad whose metric title is first class private Mary the tune is quite and the lines have less of a Byth numbers sound than most odes ordered through first class private Mary it she wore that uniform like a million Dollar nothing to object to in it makes rather a pretty and i can just see hundreds of attractive was Slink ing out on the Astor floor in backless Waltzing off in the arms of trim Young latrine orderlies in impeccably pressed nor do i wish to complain about the general As climaxed by let the big guns let me win this for i want to hurry right Back to first class private Mary my wonderful a commendable though in sure than by the time Bill gets Back to his wac she will have married his snaggletooth a old first ser Geant right Here on Staten mainly for his impending retirement skip with me now to my own special favorite among the phrases of this 32bar biography and observe the smitten dazed by his vision of i As he makes the stunning Dis covery that the letters pfc stand for perfect feminine with great Confidence i submit this and ill have you know i dont submit easily As the rugged est generalization to come out of the stencils and studios of world War perfect feminine Charm this is a folded and quite delicate immediately calling to mind such natural advantages of the terrain As Margaret Sullavan and Rita not to mention the look the legs Darnell and the lung perfect feminine Charm i Point to a pfc in my own unit whose name is Joe there is in deed something charming about the Way Joes hair stands away from his head in a fan like cow but perfect feminine hardly turn your flashlight on the bunk next to and you will see that the snores emanate from a Young blood named Pasquale whom nature has Given an isosceles Triangle of a nose and whom his army superiors have Given a single Stripe insignia which denotes a base nay of a month above the beginners i mean to is a but nothing about him that i have noticed so much As hints at anything re Motely Akin to feminine imperfect or past faces and figures come thronging in on me in a great faces and eating faces and shaving honest brows and lantern hairy legs feet and Knees that Knock soldiers my privates first every splendid one of a in its admirable list of military authorizes each and every Man of them to refer to himself As a but if any one of these mugs possesses As much As one Picayune one minute molecular Fly flick of feminine Ive been outrageously deceived Forf Martin Weidon 7 i a it looks like but then again it May be Arnold Richmond Mit smoke takes fess the dry Al Randolph everything i Tell him to he says its squaws Hank overseas make mine a Martini a soldiers dreams or so i hear Are of the simple things held what time he rests from toil and strife and plans upon his postwar life a cottage first with Lawn and a Garden plot to Spade and the songs of the drone of a glimpse of Woods and Distant but ill take a duplex with a Builtin bar and bathrooms which number four or when a yearning comes for gardens ill hop a cab for gardens and look Back from the Hudson at the a sweetheart from his childhood Days to make the cottage into Home the girl whose simple Loving ways will still his last desire to make mine a Gal who can Shine like a Star at the the or 21 a self sufficient brat in a Lily Dache hat who adores forever Amber sort of the luscious things Shell roast and bake bring glowing pictures to his eyes the summer the chocolate the Juicy Huckleberry but this Guy craves some Blue Points or a bowl of some a pheasant under a flaming crepe dont some courvoisier afloat on Camp Ralph Chapman crime and punishment for 14 months Ive been looking at this Lousy Stripe on my Arm and wondering if maybe i Lack the voice of weve got a former choir Singer for a first and the co used to Jerk sodas in in but i was Happy till last this picture winged Victory is what really browned me remember that training film about the articles of War Jack Holt got Down off his horse Long enough to play the part of a colonel in he was explaining the 110 commandments to an oct class by the Clachan Pupil in this of they showed How a Guy got out of bed one smacked a character in the Mouth and took off for a life of sacrifice in the War six months later a Dame turns him in to an my who happens to be housing around the Gin they drag this sap Back to fort where they set up the cameras and Start the he gives an Alibi but he wont swear to were All sorry when they sentenced that week no one in the company went so what so last week i walk into theater 5 to see winged right in the Middle of the an air corps examining Board is flashed on the one of the gadgets is flunk ing the Cap smashing course because he Hast the strength to Bend a and who do i see seated right in the behind the big table that right the Guy who went awol from fort Hes a a full colonel Hes got an Eagle on each shoulder and fruit salad All Over his not bad for a cookie with a dishonourable discharge and a 10year sen tence at he i ask you is that the Way to make Corporal Camp Joseph Saiy Page 22