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Died. Field Marshal Sir Cyril John Deverell, 72, hard-bitten onetime chief of the British Imperial General Staff, outstanding tactician of World War I, a great believer in mechanized, mobile warfare; in Lymington, Hants, England...
...find out-sometimes with engaging results. Asked one day what items went into an emergency kit for snake bite, she called a herpetologist at the Bronx Zoo to make sure. The excited zooman refused to tell her a thing until she told him what kind of poisonous reptile had bitten...
Brown said his company had explored the whole Lynn Lake area. The drills had bitten into three separate ore bodies estimated to total up to 5,000,000 tons. That was all Canadians wanted to know...
...princelings. They chose Otto of Bavaria, one of the highly unstable Wittelsbachs, who took 30 years to get himself dethroned. Next choice was a 17-year-old Prince of Denmark, who reigned 50 years, but was assassinated; his son Constantin was twice exiled, his grandson Alexander died after being bitten by his pet monkey; and his grandson George II has been in exile twice to date...
...fact, the quote which you ascribed to me is exactly the opposite of the comments which I made to a number of reporters, any one of whom, I believe, can testify that I stated substantially this: "This is one fellow whom the presidential and vice presidential bug has not bitten. We've got too much work on our hands in 1947 and 1948 in the Congress itself to dawdle in speculation about the presidency." As Chairman of the [Senate] Judiciary Committee and member of the Foreign Relations Committee, my ambition is to fulfill these responsibilities to the best...