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Show Bill Was Just Survivin9 And Doing Good Job of It The offhand "quality of the Negro Ne-gro serviceman's courage is neatly neat-ly summed up in an incident reported re-ported by a fellow who participated participat-ed in ' the second battle of the Philippines, last fall. His ship, the Lexington, picked up some of the crew of the Princeton after she went down, among them a Negro mess attendant. The rescued man was sitting in the wardroom pantry, dripping and drinking coffee, when an old friend of his happened by. "Why, it's Bill!" the friend exclaimed. ex-claimed. "What you doing here?" Bill's answer was precise and modest. "All's survivin'," he said. |