:03:02
...but a couple of tough customers
want to get their mitts on me.
:03:06
Grab me as soon as I show
in the streets again.
:03:09
I want somebody
to know what happened...
:03:12
...for a friend's sake,
to clear his name.
:03:15
What is his name?
:03:17
Johnny, a pal of mine.
He was a paratrooper too.
:03:21
It's like this, sir. A few days ago
they flew Johnny and me...
:03:26
...home from France
in a stripped-down bomber.
:03:29
Neither of us knew why the Army
took us out of a Paris hospital.
:03:33
We'd been under treatment for my
shoulder and Johnny's punctured lung.
:03:38
You see, only high-priority cargo
rides a bomb-rack all by itself.
:03:43
Why we rated it,
nobody could or would tell us.
:03:47
At La Guardia,
we find a welcoming committee...
:03:50
... with a lieutenant colonel from
Public Relations, not the Medical Corps.
:03:55
He was in a sweat because we were
late due to winds over the Atlantic...
:04:00
... and Washington, D. C. Was fogged in.
:04:03
He hoped they'd hold
the Limited for 10 minutes.
:04:07
All the way to Penn station
I tried to feel out the colonel...
:04:11
... but he'd only grin. They'd
actually held the Limited for us.
:04:16
Somebody sure enough wanted us
in Washington, but now!
:04:22
By the time we rolled into Philly,
I was feeling okay.
:04:25
Houses with roofs on them,
women with nylons, kids that eat.
:04:26
Houses with roofs on them,
women with nylons, kids that eat.
:04:30
I can't believe it!
:04:32
When you get on as a professor,
and I'm running my cabs in St. Louis...
:04:36
...send me up a problem
in algebra, will you?
:04:40
- Blond or brunette?
- Redhead in a sloppy joe sweater.
:04:44
You're a great guy too, if that's what
this is about. Even in the U.S.A.
:04:49
- Listen, soldier...
- I'll drop in on St. Louis for a drink.
:04:54
- Careful you don't swallow that pin.
- You should know nothing good ends.
:04:59
You're dreaming
about that blond again.