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Cafe society's Patricia Anne ("Honeychile") Wilder went bankrupt for $8,212.24-mostly clothes and a $600 phone bill. ≤≤ Tallulah Bankhead took her lion cub to the zoo for a publicity shot, got bitten by a chimpanzee...
Colonel William C. Lee, commander of Fort Benning's Provisional Parachute Group, was puzzled when he found five of his hard-bitten parachute soldiers begging for a ride in an Army airplane. He questioned the paratroopers, found that for all their flights they had never been in an airplane when it was landed. They wanted to see what it was like to come down on the cushions instead of on their shanks...
...Second Army's hard-bitten infantry outfits this would have been a breeze. To the truck drivers, clerks, typists, mechanics of the 110th it was no such thing. But the General had spoken...
...Franklin Roosevelt; opposing it is Senator White, a Roosevelt supporter on foreign policy, who wrote the resolution calling for an investigation of the Commission's rulings. Firm in its support of FCC is the No. 3 network, Mutual, which numbers among its big shots hard-bitten Bertie McCormick and his anti-Administration Chicago Tribune...
...same. Until November a British containing force cruised outside the spacious (15 sq. mi.), deep harbor of Fort de France, bottling up the French warships inside: the old, waddly carrier Béarn, the cruiser Emile Bertin, a few lesser ships, and U.S. warplanes-now partly dismantled, salt-bitten, obsolescent but still useful if they were overhauled-which the Béarn had brought...