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...noon we slid down a vertiginous slope to a peasant hut, and just as I was gulping sour milk from a wooden bowl, a rifle shot rang out outside. I ran out and beheld, some 150 yards off at the edge of the forest, two grey timber wolves tearing at the udders of a prostrate cow. As the peasant's boy fired his second bullet, the big beasts looked at us with pricked-up ears and dignifiedly trotted off into the woods...
...daylight a young reconnaissance pilot, roaring overhead to make photographs in his P-38 Lightning, beheld a vast, fascinating panoply of war spread out beneath him. Allied warships* were cruising in toward shore, turning loose murderous salvos at the enemy coast, then swerving out to avoid coastal defense batteries. The ships had kindled a chain of smoke and flame extending ten miles inland...
Gradually he became aware of a brass band playing faintly in the distance. He could not make out the tune. Then, in the corridor outside his apartment, he heard a muffled clomping. Opening the door, he beheld a large and handsome White Horse. "Yes?" said the Senator. The White Horse made no reply. Instead, drawing a watch from its vest pocket, it muttered, "Oh dear, I shall be too late," stepped into an open elevator shaft, and disappeared. Unhesitatingly the Senator followed...
...somewhat-more-than-mighty vision of a 19th-Century American patriot was put on display last week at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. The vision was a Historical Monument of the American Republic as beheld in fantasy and painted about 1876 by Erastus Salisbury Field...
Before the war, antiquated river steamers puffed through the heart of Paris along the silent river Seine. On a lovely spring morning those who sat on deck beheld history unfold before their eyes. Between floating laundry barges, tall poplars, lines of motionless fishermen, they passed within a stone's throw of Daumier's house on the Ile St. Louis. Gliding under the great city's bridges, they threaded their way through the formal shadow of the Louvre, crept by the Tuileries Gardens, the Place de la Concorde, skirted the soft Bois de Boulogne, finally relinquished the monuments...