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Then they were stripped and searched again. Cook had somehow picked up $145 in currency and a steel pick. After that jailers took away their shoes, underwear, furniture, and left them in bare cells with nothing but coveralls, woolen socks, and a blanket and toothbrush apiece. Their meals were served on paper plates, eaten with wooden spoons...
Rundstedt set up his attack like a chessmaster. Good guesswork or good forecasting told him the Rhine Valley would be covered with weather the first two weeks of December. Under such a blanket he moved divisions with a minimum chance of Allied air observation. His G-2 never functioned better...
Through the multicolored spruce and birch forests the fight went on. Soon winter would freeze the hundreds of lakes and rivers, blanket the forests with snow. In the north the Russians landed six miles from Petsamo, at the northern terminus of the Arctic highway, marched in to capture the port three days later. When the Russians neutralized Kirkenes and the Finns reached Rovaniemi, organized German resistance could no longer continue. Then Finland would have peace...
There's a tang of autumn and woolens in the air (special blanket issue for those around the Imperial Valley unaccustomed to a good northeaster) as one and all settle down behind a drawing board, bathed in a cold, to fight their way through finals...
...press" is vastly overrated. What they failed, as usual, to take into account was that in most U.S. newspapers political partisanship is largely confined to the editorial page, while in the relatively impartial-and much better-read-news columns the President maintains a consistent advantage, through his power to blanket unfavorable news by making favorable or exciting news at will. (An outstanding instance: President Roosevelt's sensational "quarantine the aggressors" speech at Chicago in 1937, while the furor over Mr. Justice Black's former Klan membership was at its height...