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...year later, Luce returned from Europe with a mustache, a cane, a pair of spats and two dimes in his pocket. He managed to land a job on the Chicago Daily News as an assistant to Ben Hecht. Hecht was a raffish columnist (and later a playwright) who used Luce as a legman to supply suggestions and information about such people as snake charmers and blind violinists. Among the paper's reporters and editors, Luce was considered something of a dandy and a dilettante. Dressed to meet his girl, he ran into the managing editor in the elevator...
...hacked out of the highway by the Viet Cong. As soon as she climbed out of the car to take pictures, three Viet Cong took her captive. According to peasants who witnessed the proceedings, the V.C.s forced her to drive off the highway to the edge of a sugar-cane field. There they all got out; while Michele munched a piece of sugar cane, which she asked her captors to cut for her, the Viet Cong set up a booby trap in the Renault with a grenade and a 155-mm. howitzer shell. Then they marched their prisoner...
Perkins, with its towers, trees and quadrangles, looks like an Ivy League college. It is quieter. There are only a few people outside; almost everyone attends classes until late afternoon. A young girl walks along a pebble path, using a cane to guide herself. A boy, perhaps eight years old, sits on a step, staring...
...Polish Bison Brand Vodka [Oct. 14]? A Bog-Fog? Better a Yucca-Flats. Merely have at hand four quarts of vodka, 15 3-oz. bottles of maraschino cherries, ten mashed oranges, lemons and limes-plus rinds, 1 lb. of cane sugar, 10 lbs. of ice cubes, and proceed to dump the whole mess into a wastebasket. Stirring recommended...
...guerrilla army as fierce and feisty as any elite Viet Cong unit, and twice as bloodthirsty. The ambush of C Company took place on Sept. 28, 1901, on the Philippine island of Samar. The guerrillas were Filipino insurrectos inspired by General Emilio Aguinaldo, tough little "bolomen" whose razor-sharp cane knives and captured Krag-Jorgensen rifles killed 4,165 Americans before the three-year insurrection was quelled. In turn, some 20,000 Filipinos died in the struggle...