fhl.Phillipr W' ' THE PRIVATE PAPERS OF PRIVATE TURKEY Dear Harriet: Well, I just seen that list of magazines maga-zines what has been approved by the army for GIs and I feel better now knowing what it is okay for me to be pretending I am reading. The list is twenty to one comics and this Is the first time I ever knew there was so many published. Movie magazines is a bad second and I am glad to find National Geographic and House and Garden on the list on account of I do not want to laugh all the time. Right between something called Blue Beetle and Big Shot Comics what do you think I find? Better Homes and Gardens! If that ain't a running broad jump in any library at home or at the front what have you? I think at first maybe Better Homes and Gardens has put in a funny supplement but it ain't. Sandwitched in between a magazine maga-zine called Gags which the army thinks we should read and Human Torch which Washington has a idea GIs can see without being done no harm is Good Housekeeping, which looks funny in that location. Well, I would like to see a GI concentrating concentrat-ing on Good Housekeeping over here and get caught by his top sergeant. ser-geant. Right in between Click, Captain Midnight and Dare Devil comics is Country Gentleman and I never seen ! no magazine looking so uncomfortable. uncomfort-able. Harper's is listed surrounded ; by Flash Comics, Funny Animals and Laff. The Saturday Evening Post is sandwitched in between Radio Hit Songs and the Scientific American which I started once but did not finish on account of there is not much sex interest. You could knock me over with a V-mail postscript when I find Outdoor Out-door Life on the list. That is a fine magazine but if there is one thing a soldier does not need to look up it is the facts about living outdoors. Physical Culture is there, too, I guess in case I do not know what to do for exercise. I see Field and Stream surrounded sur-rounded by Downbeat, Flash Comics and Famous Funnies but I forgot to bring my fishing rod to the war and I don't get much time off to dig bait. Fortune is listed in between i Front Page Detective and Funny Animals. But what mixes me up is that I find Ladies Home Journal and the Woman's Home Companion on the list sent to me. Maybe it is just a gag. I have been shifted around a lot in this war but I have not been made a WAC yet. Well, I hope you are fine and you ain't no sorrier than me that the bomb missed Hitler. All my love, Oscar P. S. Send me copies of Wow Comics, Colliers, the American Medical Journal, Ten Story Western, Nifty and Harper's Bazaar I want a all around library. Imaginary Dialogues Shimada Going my way? Tojo And how! Shimada What have we done? Tpjo Almost nothing; that's the trouble. As a naval chief you're pretty bad. Shimada Nobody seems to rate you much higher as a military leader, lead-er, I notiQj. Tojo It isn't so much a question of blame. Didn't you listen to the radio? The cabinet is merely being renovated. Shimada I like that word renovated; reno-vated; it makes me feel less embarrassed. em-barrassed. Tojo Yes, but being renovated with an ax isn't so comfortable. Shimada 1 wonder if we could have been wrong about those decadent de-cadent Americans. Tojo I've been wondering for months. We are away behind schedule sched-ule with what we were going to do to them. ' Shimada Weren't we to have been making peace in the White House by this time? Tojo Why bring that up? It onlv aiakes me feel worse. Shimada And it all looked so easy at Pearl Harbor! Tojo Didn't it! Shimada What we did to their fleet there! Tojo And what their fleet there has since done to us! Scouts from Bretton Woods monetary mone-tary conference informed us thai at no convention in years did sc many delegates have trouble adding up checks and counting the change CHRONOLOGY 1940 Fortress Europe. 1941 Fortress Europe, Africa and Asia. 1942 Fortress Europe, Asia, Af. rica and America. 1943 Fortress Europe and Asia. 1944 Fortress Europe. 1945 Fortress Where Am I?