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...Bled, a Yugoslav alpine resort, two American UNRRA workers on holiday watched a U.S. transport plane come in from, the north. Two smaller Yugoslav planes darted about it. Suddenly the transport began to smoke, rolled over on its side, plunged into a wooded hillside. The two Americans started for the scene of the crash. They scrambled up granite slopes past a Yugoslav officer who paid no attention to them. But when they started down the mountain after a futile search for the wreck, the Yugoslavs had set up a machine gun at a roadblock, carefully checked their identification...
...first attack (Aug. 9), witnessed by Marshal Tito while fishing near Bled, had cost no lives. The one casualty: a Turkish captain passenger in the U.S. plane, who was wounded by fire from the Yugoslav fighters. The nine crew members (including Captain William Crombie, veteran of 23 supply-drop missions to Tito's forces during the war) and passengers were taken to Yugoslav officers' quarters in Ljubljana. There they were given "everything we asked for except our freedom," questioned repeatedly "on all subjects...
...victim of a joke, my friend; just walk down your own Main Street in your own town and count the drunks and smell the liquor; does it shock you? Nauseate you? If those at home can do it, why not the boys who bled and fought for you? Instead of running down the American youth as you seem to delight in doing, you should thank your God that it is Americans running wild in Europe and not Nazis and Japs running wild...
Eddie Condon once tried to tell a New York Daily Newsman, in the plainest language he could muster, about his troubles in making the "real jazz" pay enough for tea for two, or keep body & soul together night & day: "We bled to death. We were eating off each other's wrists. We had one paper hat right on the hook but when we mentioned money he jumped back in the icebox." Another potential sponsor died during negotiations: "He went cool on us. They had to throw dirt...
...only places where wartime blood donors have yet been asked to continue are Michigan and southeastern Massachusetts. Michigan's donors never stopped, are now bled under the auspices of the State Health Department and the Red Cross. In Massachusetts, by citizens' request, a Red Cross truck will start collecting at local chapters, around November 15. Municipal laboratories will process the blood, and hospitals and doctors can get it free; a doctor can keep a supply in his icebox if he likes. If the system works, it will be expanded to the rest of Massachusetts. National headquarters has notified...