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[Laurence Horn]

At 5:43 PM -0400 9/25/10, Wilson Gray wrote:
>On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 8:38 AM, Jonathan Lighter
><wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>  _Never So Few_ (1959)
>
>I saw that movie at a post theater at Fort Leonard Wood,MO, back in
>'59. Quelle coincidence! The "flick" (according to Mario Pei, a
>borrowing from Britspeak) was laughed at, since we knew that Sinatra
>hadn't served a day in The War, 4-F because of a burst eardrum.

Come on, I'm sure he served.  He was a private based in Pearl Harbor
just before a big attack by the Japanese there, as I recall.  He ran
into some problems with a sergeant, though, which I seem to recall
didn't end well.

LH

>  Even
>During The War, Sinatra concerts caused riots in NYC, if the fleet was
>in port.
>
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>-Wilson
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>come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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