Southern France Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 8, 1945, Nice, Provence Alpes Cote d�?TAzur                               Merle Miller sunday july 8,1945the stars and stripes Magazine most soldiers drinking habits Haven t undergone a permanent change. Scotch and soda a v a i z a Quot Quot Quot 1 in Survey shows i Continental bar selections will revert to the american Way by Daniel Causin stars and stripes staff writer the California wine making Industry would pay a lot of Coin to know whether or not the Eto i is serious about that Glass of wine the photographs show aim a Iping at a sidewalk cafe. Just How acute this situation is getting to be can of judged of the full Page ads in color and with gorgeous gals currently appearing in National magazines. The ads boost native american sauternes. Is this another attempt to Tell the folks pack Home what the i will crave when be Steps off he boat. Or is it just another advertising Campaign sure we re suspicious Over nere a after All those fantastic articles about what the Veteran wants. At a sidewalk cafe in Paris some gis who might have been Able to give some clues to postwar drinking trends sat sipping White wine. T/4 Joseph v. Jemski of hew York City was reminiscing about Happy Days gone by. Quot Back Home i was strictly a Beer Drinker and that a what <f11 be again if i Ever make it to that Little bar off canal Street. White wine is All they have left in this place but the French Beer is Lousy anyway because it has t enough hops and malt. So i stick to popular Brand wines or  one of his companions t/5 Paul w. Broca of Chicago pointed out that Good wines were rare in France during vie War but that the men who had tasted them would not forget. However Sosa will not shift from his. Saturday night drink of american whiskey after he gets Home. Occasionally he might look for some of that rare wine but he  want wine with meals like the French. At a recently opened officers club on Rue Magellan where Beer is not served because of limited latrine facilities an attractive nurse it. Revlon Prebluda. Of fall River mass., and the 62nd general Hospital upset the trend Back to normalcy by declaring that she would serve wine with meals in her postwar Home which Wasny to her practice before Pearl Harbor. True a she said ire did have some wine what s new in Book world a Island 49�?T is a living account of the men who Are making history in the Pacific in our Home but after the War i intend to serve it regularly. A chaplain Kent m. Dale who had ample Opportunity to study i drinking habits during his 40 months with the sixth Arm dred division predicted that some men May occasionally want a Glass of Good wine but that there would be a return to old habits in selection of drinks after we get Back Home. It. Col. Samuel Frank medical officer and psychologist with the third armoured division prophesied that there would be a Rush for american whiskey. Quot even men who never drank whiskey before will find themselves in , he said. Quot whiskey has been so hard to get Over Here that Normal psychological reaction will be for a Man to try to buy what is rare to him. After awhile things will be just As they were before the War. A sidelight of the vital statistics department tour of the Paris bistros was the notation that the average Frenchman drinking fast under War time impetus finishes off a Glass of White wine in 16 minutes 20 seconds the i guzzles the same drink in four minutes ten seconds. Both figures include time out for observing unique Parisienne styles and what walks in them. It. Hartwig Van Norben of los Angeles and the 416th bomb group observed that he never would take As Long a time to Down a drink As a european. T drink for effect not affect a he declared flatly was reacted pretty much As gis. At the California hotel t 6 Rosa c. Edwards was still celebrating her wedding to Seabee y3c Lonnie Edwards of Denver. She toasted bar bridegrooms Mph with wine but the new mrs. Edwards said that she was going to order a Pink lady As soon As she gets Back to the Jub. After that it will be Tom Collinss on the night the Edwardsen go out to bowl and so it was up and Down the rues of wine drinking Paree. There were a few whose habits had changed but most americans declared stoically that they would not be affected by their exposure to the Continental Mode x of sipping. In Island 49 Thomas y. Crowell co., $2.00sgt Merle Miller who covered a Good Deal of the Pacific War for yank has Dick Fisher say Quot you done to get braver if you keep fighting. You become More of a Coward because you know what can happen to you. You know the intimate  Fisher who As an almost Ideal War correspondent always a goes Over with the doughs adds that Only those who have been in combat really understand. And that they must not think too much about it that if they allow themselves to think to become acutely Ware of the reality of their experience they Are done for. This is the thesis As sgt. Miller now editor of the Paris edition of yank demonstrates through the medium of vivid description of men in action that Modem War is an unendurable unnatural experience for most men. Whatever their station in life. The Story is told without preaching without heroics. No experienced Soldier thinks of another As a hero for the enemy is killed not As a result of courage but of necessity. The things which keep men from losing their sanity Between skirmishes and in the aftermath of Battle Are the memories of those they love Back Home of people and things in a world of peace. Island 49 is described As a novel but it is apparent from the first that every action and every character portrayed has been experienced and known by the author. The novel As advertised is an imaginary invasion by an infantry regiment of a Pacific atoll called Koria Tok. Actually however it really covers a composite invasion a experiences of invasions in. Which Miller As a reporter tor yank participated in the Pacific. When the Story opens troops Are a stretched in neat narrow rows on the deck of a former luxury liner on the Way to the invasion of Koria Tok. After making a few healthy cracks at the brass comparing the cramped dirty quarters of the pm with the staterooms of the officers. Miller singles out a few men through whom in a series of Flash backs he tells his Story. Men like Fisher who never satisfies his editors because his stuff lacks Glamor Captain Porter an army lifer married to a japanese girl who decides to hate the jews because of a Book he read the International jew. Being essentially honest this does no to distort porters appreciation of pvt. Sam Levinson the Small German refugee who could have been an interpreter in Washington but decided to fight with a gun for reasons of his own sgt. James Keeley a composer and former pacifist who More than the rest seems to speak for the author. Somehow one feels that this Book Speaks for soldiers in Soldier language. It is honest sincere fresh. The author is a fighter. He never quails or sidesteps an Issue never underestimates or overlooks the ignorance intolerance the faults of his own team. When you put the Book Down you know the War in t ended wont be even after the last gun is fired. But there is Confidence in the future Quot surely All of us together can do it can make one Small step toward lets Call Ltd although the phrase is a cliche now. The brotherhood of  a mob Thomas. I Uoo Sheti Aphis months Council books set the a �?o8�?� series leans heavily on historical novels and humor. Best seller representatives include the history of Rome Hanks s-36. By Joseph Stanley Pennell Green Dolphin Street s-39. By Elizabeth Goudge and the bolivars s.-32by Marguerite f. Bayliss. Rome Hanks is the Story of Lee Harrington s ancestors. It is a civil War Story recreated by Harrington from what he saw and was told. The unorthodox slant a Story within a Story makes it a Tittle work to read and Only if you Are a contemplative Reader and a civil War fan is this your peat. Its definitely not a time killer. The bolivars is More orthodox being an exponent of the romantic tradition. Strictly with a background of Early americana it takes place around new Jersey and Virginia. Strong characters the outdoor sparkle of Hunting makes for fast Reading not too instructive but fun. Green Dolphin Street already Hollywood purchased. Takes place in 1630. The Story is he in the Channel the ones recently liberated from the nazis. This to another psycho novel involving personalities. Moods mixed up marriages. Not bad but the movies will have to Pep 16 up a bit for popular Appeal among old favourites this month Are Arundel 8-38by Kenneth Roberta and Henry Esmond 8-35. By William Makepeace Thackeray. Arundel one of Roberts Best novels recalls the thrilling Days of the american revolution when Benedict Arnold drove through the Maine wilderness toward Quebec. Good Reading factual and chock full of adventures. Henry Esmond written 100 years ago goes on and on. Essentially a love Story it takes place Between the a the and 18th centuries. However it to written in the manner of an autobiography and not Many enjoy the method. Almost a classic by now. It s Fust Good Reading. Humor gets in its licks with lost in the horse latitudes 8-23by h. Alien Smith a Pearl in every Oyster 8-11. By Frank Sullivan and my world a and Welcome to if by James , the world a by John r. Fischetti Man Jay meat a shop