Bradley beam., 1944-03-18
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 "KNOW WHERE YOU'RE CO., ING AND WHEN," you'll be inter- ested in knowing that the Base Li- brary can help you. We have, on file, a complete guide of time tables, bus and train-what's more, we'll read them for you if necessary, and get you from Brad ley Field to Yiphank Junction in time for spot of the stew only Mother can make.
 Let's pretend you're off to New York on the 1881. You have stopped in at the Base Library and borrowed book for the train-ride, one of the new mysteries, "T'he Blackbirder," by Dorothy Hughes, "The Thursday Turkey Murders, " by Craig Rice, or the latest Erie Stanley Gardner-"The D.A. Calls a Turn" Or if you prefer Vest erns, the trip will pass quickly while reading "The Vanishing Gun Singer" by William c. Mac Donald. If you don't want to take a book you'll have to hang onto in the city, stop in and sample our Give Away Shelf which is full of good mysteries, paper-bound pocket size. When you're through with it pass it along to the G.I. in the next seat who's just changing trains in New York.
 You're there, and off to the near est U.S.O. for entertainment possi- bilities. You know what you want to see for you've read in the New York papers at the Library, just what free entertainment is avail able to the service-man. If you're not lucky enough to get tickets for Winged Victory" by Moss Hart, or Army Play By Play" by mem- bers of the Armed Forces, you'll not be too disappointed, for those are plays you can read in book form when you get back to Brad ley. Maybe you missed a good movie here at the Base. You can catch it now at it's first Broadway run, and you'll enjoy it even more if it happens to be "The Song of Bernadette," "The Bridge of San Luis Rev." or "See Here, Private Hargrove," for you've already read the book from which the movie is taken. Now for bit of sight-see- ing-the Statue of Liberty, China town, Greenwich Village, Fifth Avenue, Central Park, and many other points of interest to the New York visitor. Stop in at the Base Library and take look at New York City Guide and choose just what you want to see before your visit. And for atmosphere you'll want to read "The Eight Million" by Meyer Berger, or "McSorley's Wonderful Saloon," by John s. Mitchell.
 It's time to get started back to Bradley. The 200O from New York will get you in Windsor Locks while the Base Bus is still run ming.
 We're no reformers, but there are two books we think you will enjoy and benefit by, New York or no. Why not read them before next payday? One is "Alcohol Ex plored," by H. w. Haggard & E. M. Jellinek. This is no book with a moral. It's an absorbing (no pun intended), story of alcohol, and it's physiological, social and economic implications. Its chapter headings will give you an idea of the con- tents: The alcohol problem de- fined, What the world drinks and how much, What happens to alco- hol in the body, etc. The other book is Danger in the Cards" by Mi chael MacDougall. Anyone who has never even gambled and lost on any game from matching pennies to the fast and dangerous Red Dog has probably wondered if he were being cheated. After reading this book, he'll probably decide that he was, for MT. MacdougaH shows ex-
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