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Hide & Seek. In September 1944, while Allied armies inched painfully up the Italian boot, three Americans from the U.S. Office of Strategic Services parachuted down on Mt. Mottarone in northern Italy, 100 miles beyond the battle lines. Big cargo chutes floated down arms and a powerful radio. Their mission, which bore the code name "Chrysler," was to make arrangements with partisan groups-Communists, Socialists, Catholics, independents-for the supply of arms. The U.S. recognized the value of partisans who killed Germans behind the lines, but some U.S. officials also realized that certain of the partisans were more interested in fighting...
...Marine Corps was ordered to take draftees, not because it needed them, but because so many tough young men volunteered that the other services felt cheated. The Marine Corps fixed it so that draftees could specify their choice of service; a sergeant could still snarl at a boot: "Nobody asked you to join this outfit, bub." Now the Marines had to go begging. The Marines would presumably still have the right to wash out anyone who couldn't stomach the rugged training. But the sad fact these days, said one Marine major, is that there are just "not enough...
...producers decided to switch the program to television, but Hollywood's KLAC-TV beat them to it with Wedding Bells, which did everything Bride and Groom did, and showed the actual wedding ceremony to boot...
...animal tissue to sew up wounds. In 1887, Dr. Thomas G. Morton performed the first successful operation for the removal of a diseased appendix. Some other surgeons are remembered for odd reasons: as late as the 1870s, Dr. David Hayes Agnew insisted on stropping his scalpel on his boot sole, and Dr. George C. Harlan, for handiness, held instruments between his teeth...
...Camp Pendleton band that was as handy with a love lyric as a marching song. Sandwiched among the musical numbers were several Marine Corps skits, balanced neatly between toughness and sentimentality. Possibly the biggest surprise for Marine veterans was a middle "commercial" selling the hearty, frolicsome outdoor life of boot training...