| Show 6 r THE PRIVATE PAPERS OF PRIVATE PURKEY Dear Harriet Well I just seen that list of magazines magazines magazines maga maga- what has been approved by bythe bythe the army for GIs and I feel better now knowing what it is okay for me meto meto meto 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 f magazines is a bad second and I II Iam Iam am glad to find National Geographic I and House and Garden on the list liston liston liston on account of I do not want to laugh all the time S Right Sight between something called Blue Beetle and Big Shot Comics what do you think I find Better Homes and Gardens If that aint a running broad jump dump m 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 aint in between a magazine magazine magazine maga 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 r would like to see a GI concentrating ing on Good Housekeeping over here and get caught by his top ser ser- geant Right in between Click Captain Midnight and Dare Devil comics is Country Gentleman and I never seen ao no magazine looking so able ible Harpers Harper's is listed surrounded Dy y Flash Comics Funny Animals ind and Laff LatT The Saturday Evening Post is in between Hit Songs and the Scientific American I which I started once but iid lid not finish on account of there is much sex interest S You could knock me over with a V-mail V postscript when I find Out- Out loor ioor Life on the list That is a fine but if there is one thing 1 soldier does not need to look up it its its s the facts about living outdoors Physical Culture is there too I Iguess guess uess in case I do not know what o 0 do for exercise I see Field and Stream surrounded sur- sur rounded by Downbeat Flash Comics and ind Famous Funnies but I forgot to 0 o bring my fishing rod to the war and ind I dont don't get much time off to dig fait bait Fortune is listed in hi between Fron Page Detective and Funny Animals But what mixes me up is that I find Ladies Home Journal and the Womans Woman's Home Companion on the list sent to me Maybe it is just a gag I have been shifted around a lot lotin lotin lotin in this war but I have not been made madea a WAC WAG yet Well I hope you are fine and you aint no sorrier than me that the bomb missed Hitler All my love Oscar P. P S. S Send me copies of Wow Comics Colliers the American Medical Journal Ten Story Western Vestern Nifty and Harpers Harper's Bazaar I want a aall aall aall all around library III III |
