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...proper for the hero of his own story, Behan went to his hard school in obedience to family tradition; like his father before him, he was a member of the Irish Republican Army. At 16, in 1939, he traveled to England with the intention of blowing up the battleship King George V. After less than a week and nothing blown up, British po; lice caught Brendan with the explosive goods on him in a Liverpool slum tenement. At Borstal, one of the "screws" (warders) showed a keen sense of British affection for unsuccessful revolutionaries. Said he to the chubby would...
...richly appointed Lake Shore Drive apartment of Chicago Financier Albert Newman, the guests chatted animatedly, gazed at the original Picasso on the wall, and the Monet, the Jackson Pollock. On tables and shelves stood Peruvian fertility symbols, jade bracelets, sculptures that looked like the superstructure of a Japanese battleship. The heavy air clinked with philosophy, culture and sensitivity...
...plastics fabrication, decided to make a "detailed and authentic" plastic toy washing machine. It sold well, but his first big hit did not come until 1950, when Glaser put out a copy of the old Maxwell auto, made famous by Comedian Jack Benny, sold 800,000. Glaser added the battleship Missouri (still the most successful, with 2,040,000 kits sold), launched his own 89? version of the atomic submarine Nautilus in 1953 six months before General Dynamics Corp. Other bestsellers this year: the Bomarc antiaircraft missile (457,000 kits) and the Talos missile (443,000 kits sold since...
...Drawing on captured Russian letters and diaries, naval attaches' dispatches and newspaper accounts, Author Hough manages to move ubiquitously around the fleet and delivers a harrowing, heroic account of the battleships' most trying hours. "You wish us victory, but there will be no victory," mumbled Captain Bukhvostoff of the battleship Alexander III. "But we will know how to die, and we shall never surrender...
...Green Devils of Monte Cassino the Germans held the abbey five months against heavy Allied attacks because their parachutists needed that time to bring its art treasures to the safety of the Vatican. In U-47, dashing Submariner Günther Prien plunks his torpedoes into the British battleship Royal Oak at Scapa Flow, but when his deck officer shouts "Hurrah!", whispers: "Shut up; 2,000 men have just died aboard that ship...