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Soon after their outfit gets a toe hold on the Italian boot, Paratrooper Lieut. Sam Loggins tabs his radioman T/5 Britt Harris as a grandstand soldier. Against Loggins' orders, the corporal guides some medics into an orchard mined by the retreating Germans and helps bring out ten dead and wounded G.I.s. The lieutenant breaks him to private on the spot. Days later, Loggins finds out just how phony the heroism was; Harris had already cased the mine locations on a previous apple-stealing foray...
Died. John Campbell Boot, 67, second Baron Trent of Nottingham, longtime (1926-54) head of Boots Pure Drug Co., Ltd., the vast (more than 1.300 shops in Great Britain) British drugstore chain founded by his father; in St. Lawrence, island of Jersey...
...major industry in Sicily, Sardinia and southern Italy. But bandits, though they make news nearly every week, aren't what they used to be-and Musolino's reputation survives in ballads still sung. A young woodcutter of Aspromonte, a craggy region near the toe of the Italian boot, Musolino, like Robin Hood, turned outlaw first (so it was said) when he was falsely accused of attempted murder. Two years later, he escaped from jail, and for the next three years conducted his own roughhewn version of justice...
From his prep school (Choate) to Navy boot training to Princeton, Adlai was followed by his parents' extraordinarily protective love. When, in summer camp, Adlai seemed to be going in for athletics too much, Pop wrote: "I want you to stop this right away. The purpose of your being there [is] to get you in good physical condition so you can have your tonsils removed without any harm." And when Adlai reported that he had taken up smoking, Mother wrote: "My Laddie Boy ... I hope I can show you the futility of getting the tobacco habit." (Today Stevenson...
...Southerner, and I say Judge Brady, author of Black Monday [Dec. 12], is for the birds, and is a pompous windbag to boot. It is not the N.A.A.C.P. which we true Southerners, both white and black, have to fear but men like Brady, whose statements make us sound like a bunch of "hold my magnolia, while I beat my slave" fools...