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...headlines went wild. Actually, the Polish issue last week was not "near solution." Neither was it in a state of "crisis." Said a British diplomat in Washington: "We are now where we should have been two months ago. We are out of the bunker and back on the fairway. There is still an iron shot and at least one putt before we sink the ball...
...English grammar school as a model, he inaugurated the classical curriculum and the spartan, democratic spirit which have been Roxbury earmarks ever since. Roxbury alumni include General Joseph Warren, a onetime headmaster, who sent Paul Revere on his ride, led the fight at Lexington, and was killed at Bunker Hill; James Pierpont, principal founder of Yale; Harvard's great literary scholars, Charles H. Grandgent and George Lyman Kittredge. At one time in the 1920s ten Roxbury alumni were presidents of U.S. colleges and universities...
...Eighty-Second. In 1940, U.S. airborne divisions were only a fanatical idea. Two years later, the promising 82nd Infantry Division (Sergeant Alvin York's outfit in World War I) was turned into an airborne division, with Major General Matthew Bunker Ridgway in command. At the same time the 101st Airborne was newly activated under Major General William Carey Lee, the man who fathered the radical doctrine. The two outfits began intensive training...
...252hrer remained in the cellar. I believe he went out, possibly several times, looking for death to which he was now so completely resigned, and that he may have died by artillery fire. One thing we do know-he was not the last man alive in the Chancellery bunker, because after his death we still received some radio reports from there...
...disappearance was the work of the Nazis. When it became clear that Weimar would fall, an alarmed Nazi Gauleiter ordered the poets' bodies taken to Jena. Two unnamed German civilians-a doctor of philosophy and a lawyer-carried out the order, concealed the coffins in an air-raid bunker beneath a hospital. Then the U.S. Army neared Jena. This time the Gauleiter ordered SS men to destroy the bodies so that they would not fall into the hands of the "American barbarians." But the bodies had disappeared. So had the two Germans in charge of them...