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...were ashamed and embarrassed by the vituperations of Tom ("Shrinking Violet") Linder. We thought his kind died "four score and nine years ago." We of the famed 82nd Airborne Division, who have fought and worked beside many of Georgia's higher-class citizens-notably Negroes-are inclined to believe that Linder is the "immigrant of lower standards...
Self-assured and suave, Capa was equally at home in the salons of Mayfair or in the waterfront saloons of Marseille. But it was on the battlefronts of World War II that Photographer Capa cut a commanding figure. Once with the 82nd Airborne Division, an admiring paratrooper who was preparing to jump turned to Capa and said seriously: "I don't like your job, pal. It's too dangerous." Near Bastogne, Capa got in front of an advancing U.S. column and was "captured" by G.I.s, suspicious of his thickly accented English. (He was freed after showing his photographer...
Sage Bertrand Russell celebrated his 82nd birthday by bringing out his second volume of short stories, Nightmares of Eminent Persons. Among the bad dreams that Russell dreamed up were nocturnal horrors suffered by Dwight Eisenhower, Joseph Stalin and former Secretary of State Dean Acheson...
...year-old DeMar has won the classic seven times, and last year, though held to 82nd place, still managed to outrun Chrisman and, as he says, "a whole flock of others." He's planning to finish at least in the top 60 this year...
Within a few minutes a thousand men of the 82nd Airborne Division dangled in air beneath green and brown camouflage parachutes. Each of the planes moving overhead was slowing almost to the stalling point as it disgorged its jumpers...