"He was a pretty nice kid.  Of course, I knew way back he would be a writer.  He always loved to write.  I'm proud of Gus--he's made a wonderful man of himself," Mrs. Noblett said . . .
    Mrs. Noblett, who keeps an autographed copy of The Short-Timers in the kitchen of her modest, green frame home, said she didn't know Kubrick, but two of her nine daughters went to see the film and told her all about it.
    "I don't know how he ever got that movie together.  Of course there's a lot of words in there that aren't too nice.  But they understood they weren't going to a religious movie when they went.  They were going to a war movie."