:53:02
It's the old strip all right.
:53:04
Habeda, scout.
:53:09
- Hicks, you and Smithy look up that way.
- Yes, sir.
:53:22
All right, dish out the Atabrine tablets.
:53:24
Everybody okay?
:53:26
Okay? Easiest war I ever been in.
:53:28
What is it today, Hogan?
:53:29
Chicken dinner with dumplings.
These are the dumplings.
:53:34
What time are those planes
due to pick us up?
:53:36
Ten minutes.
:53:38
- Get a story, Mr. Williams?
- I got more than that.
:53:41
I don't mind telling you gentlemen,
there were some moments there...
:53:44
when I wished I was somewhere else.
Almost anywhere else would have done.
:53:48
If you could be someplace else right now,
Charlie, where would it be?
:53:52
I don't know. A football game.
:53:54
How about you?
:53:56
If I had my choice
I'd be sitting on a nice, soft stool...
:53:59
in the National Press Club
in Washington, D. C...
:54:02
surrounding a tall, cold bourbon and soda.
:54:05
What? I didn't know newspapermen drank.
:54:10
How about you?
:54:11
A place you probably never heard of.
Cannonball Island in Central Park.
:54:15
- Really? New York?
- Yeah, Schenectady, New York.
:54:17
They have a central park, too,
with this island in the middle.
:54:20
Sort of take your girl there
if you're real friendly.
:54:23
Sounds all right.
:54:24
- I have a lot of friends in Schenectady.
- No kidding.
:54:28
Yeah. My column is syndicated there,
The Gazette. Your folks live there?
:54:31
My father has a grocery store
on Crane Street, by the locomotive works.
:54:35
- Really? Where'd you go to school?
- Union College.
:54:38
I'm supposed to be a schoolteacher.
After the war I have an appointment.
:54:41
History teacher
in Pleasant Valley High School.
:54:44
That's fine. Your folks will get
quite a kick out of reading about you.
:54:48
You mean all that stuff
will be in the Schenectady paper?
:54:51
- Sure. You don't mind, do you?
- Heck no.
:54:54
What do you know.
It's a small world, isn't it?
:54:58
Yes, and it's getting smaller.