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Through a smashing Atlantic gale 600 miles off the British coast ploughed the City of Benares one night last week, bound under convoy for Canada. Below decks 90 children evacuated from the heavily bombed slum sections of London were asleep in their bunks. Other passengers were playing bridge in the lounge, chatting in the ship's bar. It was just 10 o'clock...
...session the squat gunman had confessed to three murders, implicated himself in four more. On one shooting expedition he had been with Harry ("Happy") Maione and Frank ("The Dasher") Abbandando, now awaiting the electric chair at Sing Sing. They had polished off two members of a plasterers' union asleep in their apartment. They also shot the plasterers' bulldog. Once, for diversion, Gurino and four other gorillas abducted a nightclub singer, took her to a vacant lot and raped her. They didn't kill her. They gave her frightened mother about $500, told her to keep her mouth...
...terriers. In the biggest peacetime maneuvers in history, 300,000 regular, National Guard and reserve troops hiked, fought, slept in the open, while Army umpires with white bands around their campaign hats marked down their scores. Sweaty infantrymen slogged along country roads. Artillery rumbled through peaceful villages, tired gunners asleep in the trucks. Rednecked horse cavalrymen galloped down ravines, and forded creeks behind cased guidons. Cursing engineers built pontoon bridges across rivers while machine guns chattered and infantrymen in trucks shouted for more speed...
...still at school in the South; one, just 14, writes from her school: "T. woke me up, shaking and calling in my ear, the beastly sirens were going full blast and they make a vile, almost tangible din. I really was very scared, you see I was half asleep and the flashing torches, the general din and semi-panic was rather horrible. And of course I couldn't find my coat or my gas mask or my shoes, and my knickers jammed in my pyjamas. Eventually we all got down and sat on benches, then everybody lay down...
...Denver; 9:20 in the Pacific Coast cities. It was the nocturnal life of the U. S. that caught his words and their intonation-the taxi drivers, the sleepless passengers in deluxe trains, the patrons of bars and restaurants-most workmen and farmers were long since asleep...