Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-27

dozen novels based on the peo-
ple in that single car.
A good many were fighting
men, soldiers, sailors, fliers, two
or three Canadians, one OF them
from the British Columbia ORA
eoons, who fight In tanks now,
hut retain their old name.
And a Young nurse, not quite
knowing what 10 do about the
fact that she was a lieutenant.
A good many Of the soldiers
make il a point to find some
excuse 10 salute these young
lieutenants.
The eld-timers among the
nurses are used 10 it, but the
young ones--such as this one on
the train-usually blush and
don't know what TO do. That's
why the soldiers salute. just 10
see how flustered the girls get.
Among the men the most In
teresting was young New
York sergeant, who looked as
though his face had been run
over by q harrow. He had prob
ably six or eight long scars on
his face, and was only recently
recovered from fractures Of the
ankle, leg, knee. jaw and finger,
having lived through n plane
crash. He WAS ON his way East
to rest up ut home.
In seven plane crashes that
ne knew of personally. he said,
ne was the only one who lived.
hut II didn't seem 10 bother
him and he was going back Ms
soon as he finished healing up.
The extraordinary thin &
about me-" he said converse
tionaliy, was that i didn I
break even one tooth. That is
very unusual.
He recalled. with amusement,
that when the doctors were
looking at me right afterward,
one of them kept saying. but
this guy should be dead. He
shouldn't be alive!
Scattered through the car
were college students Zone girl
and one young man not getting
m the courage TO make friends
until they'd reached jackson,
and then he got of at Ann
Arbor). veterans from the last
war. and a merchant who sold
cheap wearing apparel. He kept
buttonhoIing the others and
showing the bill of sale for a
consignment OF suits he'd just
bought, ut $3.50 each.
They pretended to be las
cinated, and then made slightly
hidden Jokes Mt his expense.
They thought he didn't know IL,
but 1 think he did,
Down at the front OF the car.
occupying two seats tone oil
them swung over so that II
faced the other) was a young
mother and her brood OF three
children from Texas.
After a couple of hours a rail-
road car is as cosby as the
back fence. Everybody knows
everybody else's business, and
tells il.
The young woman. II turned
out. had carried her brood In
day coaches all the way from
Texas, and was bound for some
where in Canada, tremendous
feat II you've ever travelled with
children, even for much shorter
distances.
She was wearing blue slacki
and tan shoes, and two OF thu
kids were In overAIls. One DO,
lay sleeping full length on tn
opposite seat. She rode sitting
backward. Another boy three
or four years younger (prob
ably 8 or 4 years old slept be
side her, all curled up.
At her feet, on the floor, wa
a small, low crib that looke'
like a doll bed. Evidently J
was for the baby, but most o
the time she held the baby Il
her lap, and when the rest o
us got of at Detroit she stage
ON the car. At 2:35 a. m. IN
was nursing the baby and pay
ing not the least attention :
us as we piled of with on
suitcases.
Do you mean 10 tell me tia
a playwright or author couldn
write a play or novel based o
the human beings in that on
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