"Oh, Boy!"

In San Francisco, 11-year-old Philip Brown, whose father, Lieut. Commander Cabot Brown, is a medical officer in the Navy, was told to write a composition for his English class. On the topic, "The First Day My Father Is Home," Philip wrote:

"My father has been out in the Pacific for about 15 months. In three months he is due home. I wonder what the first day home will be like. This is how I think it will be.

"Mom, Steve, Jim and myself will all go down to meet him at the pier. The ship will be late. Many people will be waiting. When it arrives we shall find my father. I would start asking so many questions. Pop would not answer all of them. He would want to forget the war now that he was home. By the time we got home it would be lunch time. He would then eat his first home cook meal in one and a half years. I am sure we shall have a very fancy lunch. After about an hour eating, filling quite full, mom will ask me to get the schoch out and start on the drinks. (Oh Boy.) At about three, pop will want some good old modern music. Then a few friends will come in to welcome him home an a bottle of sckoch. After awhile we shall start getting hungry. (Food!)

"Mom says, 'Let's go out to dinner and be stylish about it.'

"After food bed! Oh Boy."

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