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Major Milton R. Knight of San Angelo, Tex. had just parachuted from an exploding B-29 off the Marianas. His life jacket would not inflate. Exquisitely balancing the principles of survival and buoyancy, Knight drank half the water in his canteen, poured out the rest, stoppered it and tied it to his belt. It was still helping him float more than three hours later when a Navy surface vessel picked...
...South Bend, the well-organized luck of the Irish still held. Notre Dame was up with a new 200-lb., 6-ft. 3 sparkplug, 17-year-old Joe Gasparella, touted to be as good a passer as Angelo Bertelli...
From Colorado University, were the dates of Sam Nikkel, Ed Gilleran, and Angelo Barsanti. We understand Boston is their home, but they have caught the tang of western air and want to go back...
Buildings and parks still bore the scars of Nazi bullets, fired into Italian crowds by Nazi soldiers. Correspondents visited a Nazi torture chamber in the Gestapo jail at No. 145 Via Tasso, talked with Angelo Yoppi, a hopeless cripple after 52 days' imprisonment there with his hands and legs tied behind his back. They peered into a cavern on Rome's outskirts, where the Nazis had piled like cordwood some 500 Italians massacred last March in reprisal for the grenade-killing of 32 German soldiers; now weeping Romans stood at the tomb's mouth, searching for relatives...
...Duke sided with the French. Abbe Alberoni, 33, was among those sent to pay little Parma's respects to French Marshal Vendome. The haughty Marshal received the Parmesan statesmen by rising from his privy seat and turning his bare butt to them. Cried Abbe Alberoni: "Checulo d'angelo!" ("What an angelic bottom!") Marshal Vendome was enchanted, soon signed Alberoni on as his private secretary. The shrewd secretary bought Vendome's vain generals new wigs, found art ists to paint their portraits, cooked them delicious Parmesan dishes. At the end of the eleven-year-long war, Abbe Alberoni...