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...Leigh-Mallory had good news: paratroop losses seemed to be light, and things were going fine. "Grand, said I, grand, I'll tell the boss as soon as he wakes up. ... I tiptoed down the cinder path to Ike's circus wagon to see if he was asleep and saw him silhouetted in bed behind a Western. Ike grinned as he lit a cigaret...
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...even air intelligence officers had their share of bombs to duck, their jobs to do. Off the Salerno beachhead Major Sheean's ship, the Ancon, stood up to 19 German bombings in one day. Beyond Salerno itself a sudden German ground thrust nearly caught Major Sheean asleep, forced him to evacuate in such a rush that "my rare and wonderful air mattress" had to be left behind. Later, disgusted by the effects of "neoFascist" Churchillian policies in Italy and the protracted Italian land campaign, he asked to be transferred...
...raids went off as planned. At a third-floor apartment on Ottawa's Elgin Street, four Mounties almost failed to get their man. When they entered, they were thumped by the awakened tenant, who thought he was being robbed. The man they really wanted was asleep next door. There were raids elsewhere in Canada too-reportedly in Toronto, Montreal, Edmonton. By week's end at least a score of men were "detained." One Canadian was reportedly picked up in London...
...sober, somber Council chamber was filled with the sounds of waiting: the hum-buzz of bored conversation in the gallery, the deep, snoozy breathing of weary spectators who had fallen asleep, nervous coughs, the rustling of papers. Only those with very sharp ears could hear, above these sounds in Westminster's Central Hall, the pacing footsteps of the future...