The Woes of Pfc. Collins

For Marvin Collins, private first class, life had been misery ever since he left Chicago 14 months ago. "The women won't go out with me," he sadly told friends in New Delhi. He lived on mashed potatoes & gravy. Reason: Pfc. Collins had lost his store teeth.

Then it seemed that Marvin Collins' luck was on the mend. Officers sent him to a U.S. base hospital somewhere in India and the dentists furnished him a set of teeth. Collins beamed as he boarded the train for New Delhi. But after he tested his teeth on canned salmon he got sick, leaned out the train window, lost salmon and teeth, too. Last week the Army newspaper, Roundup, was crusading for "Teeth for Collins." They thought this time it might be worked through British dentists, on reverse Lend-Lease.

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