When dad attended the Field Artillery Replacement Training Center at Camp Roberts, California in 1943 it went by the acronym FARTCEN. I know gentlemen of the press aren't the most popular people in military circles, so if it's any consolation, after having been a battery clerk in combat in Europe he went on to run the composing room of Stars and Stripes-Pacific in Tokyo in December 1945. I have the 7.7mm Arisaka he won at the S&S Christmas party raffle in 1945. At the C-J he was its TV critic for a while--he wrote that the best setting on a TV was the "off" position. He also predicted that a young comedian named Johnny Carson who was then being badly beaten in viewer ratings by Liberace would go on to have a good career.
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