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Kroener had been a butcher in Germany before he came to the U.S. and got a job as a kennel man with Mrs. Gertrude Lintz, who collected pets. Buddy belonged to Mrs. Lintz; she had bought the little creature from the captain of an African freighter. But Buddy belonged spiritually to Kroener. He helped nurse the little gorilla back to health. Buddy grew, learned to walk erect, romped with innocent menace around Mrs. Lintz's Brooklyn home with the taciturn, dour-faced ex-butcher. The baby grew up into 200 pounds of gorilla. Mrs. Lintz, who had a cage...
Buddy, Kroener was convinced, blamed him for the imprisonment. The gorilla's rage became smoldering and volcanic. Several times he lunged through the bars at Kroener, who saved himself only by his agility. Nevertheless, the care of the gorilla had become an obsession with the one-time butcher. He refused to let anyone else take Buddy in charge...
...Japanese advanced the lawlessness behind the lines increased. Railroads were wrecked, cars were fired upon in the dark, and even in daylight several Chinese were murdered on the road. Gangs of dacoits, as many as four or five hundred, armed with cruel, butcher-knife-like dahs and with torches in their hands often went through towns completing the work of destruction begun by Japanese incendiary bombs. The Japanese, and the small but active group of Burmese that were their allies, literally and devastatingly burned their way through Burma...
...Giraud had escaped from the Germans. In 1914, aged 35, he was wounded in a French bayonet attack near Charleroi and left for dead on the field. Captured by the Germans, he made his first escape via Holland to England, aided by his fluent German, variously disguised as a butcher, stableboy, coal man, and magician in a traveling circus. At one point he was helped by Nurse Edith Cavell. In 1915 he was back with the French Fifth Army...
...girls' were all more than seventy years old." ^ Therese, the 250-lb. cook, "was a 'numero' in all senses of the word." ("A 'numero' . . . was one degree lower than a 'type,' but less severe than 'individu.' ") Armed with a butcher's knife and fortified with three liters of red wine (her daily quota: five liters), Therese was formida ble. She endeared herself to the local wags by surreptitiously serving the unpopular Navet "chat farci" -stuffed...