Books: The No-Glamor Boys

KEEP YOUR HEAD DOWN—Walter Bernstein—Viking ($2).

"My name's Harlow," announced the lad who had just landed in the Fort Benning guard house. "I'm in very high spirits. The M.P.s picked me up because these are no days for high spirits."

"Am I worrying?" asked the grimy little private hiding in an Italian shell hole. "I'm not the worrying type. I'm just curious. I just want to know when the hell I'm getting out of this hole."

These are but two of the hundreds of G.I.s, some glum, some gay, whom Sergeant Walter Bernstein ran across...

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