Breaking The Code To The Catcher In The Rye discussion

"Where I lived at Pencey, I lived in the Ossenburger Memorial Wing of the new dorms. It was only for juniors and seniors. I was a junior. My roommate was a senior. It was named after this guy Ossenburger that went to Pencey. He made a pot of dough in the undertaking business after he got out of Pencey." Chapter 3 of The Catcher in the Rye

I am reading Ulysses "Hades"
https://archive.org/details/Ulysses-A...

When I read this section about Ossenburger and this chapter in Ulysses they just seemed to remind me of each other.

OSS = Office of Strategic Strategies Service.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offic...

Did Salinger work for this department or branch of military?

'en' homonym 'in'

(Ham)burg...https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombi...


Back to The Catcher in the Rye chapter 3

"He made a pot of dough in the undertaking business after he got out of Pencey. What he did, he started these undertaking parlors all over the country that you could get members of your family buried for about five bucks apiece. You should see old Ossenburger. He probably just shoves them in a sack and dumps them in the river. Anyway, he gave Pencey a pile of dough, and they named our wing alter him. The first football game of the year, he came up to school in this big goddam Cadillac, and we all had to stand up in the grandstand and give him a locomotive--that's a cheer. "

Cadillac is made by the same company as a Holden:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadillac
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holden

Football as war:

Football! Navy! War!: How Military Lend-Lease Players Saved the College Game and Helped Win World War II

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stand...!
Staring Little Shirley her first movie.
In the Catcher they reference her as Little Shirley Bean.

Where does the Bean come from?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Bean

Yes, just like Roy Bean, the United States set up shop, judging and punishing the people of Europe.

Hitler went through and stole everything that was worth stealing.

We came through and destroyed Europe. It was literal scorched earth.

So i leave you with these two songs in this one videos from Stand Up And Cheer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pshgQ...

The second one says "We will fight for the Emperor for we are the Roman Soldiers"

Larry wrote: "What's a McKinleyville?..."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willi...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/McKin...