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Show , STORY-TELLING TO SOLDIERS Irving Cobb, newspaper man, war correspondent, magazine writer, is doing his "bit" in the dug-outs of the Y. M. C. A. nearest the American Ameri-can front lines over there. He is employing his time telling stories to soldiers under the auspices of the National War Work Council of the Y. M. C. A., doing his part in keeping keep-ing the morale of the American army at the topmost point. He is undergoing under-going hardships, dodging into underground under-ground stations as shrapnel bursts, and keeping a smile in the midst of it all. He is telling soldiers stories of the south, stories of home, that they want to hear, doing a wonderful work and enjoying it. Fourteen hours a day he is at ft, ten hours a day more than he ever worked before. be-fore. He is acquiring an intimate ; knowledge of the American fighting man, amusing him in his leisure hours and making life just a little ; happier for him. |