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Pretty, 29-year-old Mrs. Clifford L. Ashton, of Salt Lake City, wanted two things very badly: 1) to get her lieutenant husband out of the Army; 2) to get him a good postwar job. An upcoming election for four city judgeships looked best to her, so she entered his name, set out to get him elected...
...election time last week, the voters could not resist ousting the Democratic incumbent to make room for Mrs. Ashton's husband. (Term: six years; salary: $5.000 a year.) Nor could the Army keep him any longer. Judge-elect Ashton wall be home before Jan. I. Then Mrs. Ashton will probably retire from politics...
...story concerns the tiny English hamlet of Bramley End and its two-day seizure by four planeloads of German paratroopers disguised as four lorry-loads of British engineers. Unmasked by Nora Ashton (Valerie Taylor), sweetheart of Community Leader Oliver Wilsford (Leslie Banks), who is really a fifth columnist, the Germans pen the villagers in the church...
...Making Money." Light was just sneaking over the horizon; a rooster crowed overhead. Toffey was radio-talking to the regimental commander, Lieut. Colonel Ashton Manhart, when a spatter of machine-gun and rifle fire broke out. "We're starting to make some money now," calmly said Toffey over the radio...
Artillery bowled down the valley at 9 a.m., like a giant Rip van Winkle game of tenpins. At 10 it began raining, and the artillery fire halted. Lieut. Colonel Ashton Manhart said: "The poor damn doughboys get it again." The Divisional General at Colonel Manhart's command post said: "I don't know why this artillery lets up just because it's raining." The rain stopped and German artillery started at about noon. The German bursts, guided by observation from advantageous Nazi heights, poked with maddening accuracy into gulleys, behind haystacks, on to houses being used...