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...Army duty officer at the Pentagon routed General Lightnin' Joe Collins out of bed at 5:30 one morning last week to read him the first pink secret dispatch about the Chinese counteroffensive. Collins rubbed his eyes and dialed General Omar Bradley, asleep in House No. 1 at Fort Myer, Va. All that day the Pentagon's brass-level was gloomy with misgivings. Next morning the whole thing exploded when Douglas MacArthur defined "the entirely...
...gibe was justified. MacArthur's intelligence, headed by Major General Charles A. Willoughby, had not been either drunk or asleep; nevertheless it had failed to find out what it should have found out about the enemy...
Engineer Leahy last week followed Conductor Moore to the stand in a Port Pirie police court and explained his rocketing ride. He had failed to stop at Deakin, he said, for the simple reason that he had fallen asleep at the controls and the fireman had failed to wake him. The business of lying on the tracks was merely a routine inspection of the locomotive's underpinnings. As for the blondes, they were the fireman's guests, not his. "Girls," snarled Engineer Leahy, sounding now as though he meant it, "don't interest...
Walk softly, strangr, as you leave the theater, because everyone else in the place will be asleep. --David P. Lighthill
DAWN came up with a maddening slowness Sept. 15th. Aboard our APA (attack transport) we prayed for a clear, bright day. But it was dark and overcast. Most of the marines were asleep. After tossing for hours through the night, they had dropped off as morning neared...