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BY DAVE CONDON POSTMASTER: Please The game is ultra-super-colossal in the midwest. send copies returned under labels Form 3579 to Post Office Box toss, Indianapolis 6, CAN YOU GET GOOD CARE IN A VETERANS HOSPITAL?. 18 Indiana. BY DONALD R. WILSON Tlie Amertcon Legion The National Commander looks over the VA hospital set-up, Magazine is the official pubhcotion of Tile Ameri- con Legion and is owned ALL QUIET ON THE HOME FRONT 20 exclusively by The Ameri- can Legion, Copyright BY JAMES C. JONES, JR. 1951. Published monthly of 1100 W. Broadway, Back from Korea, a Marine finds America indifferent. Louisville, Ky. Acceptance for mailing ot special rate of postage provided for in HOW TO SELL A USED CAR 22 Section 1 103, Act of Oct. 3, 1917, outhorized Jan. BY MORGAN MORRIS 5, 1925. Price single copy, 15 cents; yearly subscrip- Ways and means of getting more for the old jalopy. lion, $1.50. 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