'I was in the mood for kissing': Vet remembers WWII photo published in Life Magazine
'I was in the mood for kissing': Vet remembers WWII photo published in Life Magazine “Huba-huba-huba and yum!” That’s what one New York City newspaper wrote after Carus Olcott was caught on camera kissing German actress Marlene Dietrich on his return back from World War II — a photo that has appeared in Life Magazine and several other publications. The photo shows Olcott leaning out of a porthole on the USS Monticello as four men lift Dietrich up for a kiss. "She wasn’t coming down the gangplank, she was not coming to see me," said Olcott, 95, who now lives in Myrtle Beach. "I was nothing, I’m still nothing. She was visiting a ship on this side of the wharf and we came in, the Monticello on the other side of the wharf. So I probably called her baby or some foolish thing, so they pushed her up to the porthole, which you can see wasn’t on the ground, and I kissed her." At the time, Olcott was 23. His ship was returning from Europe where the 2nd Infantry Divi...