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Lieut. Francis Xavier Buckley, a carrot-thatched engineer from Philadelphia, was tooling his jeep northward from Terracina along the coastal road, accompanied by a private. When they came to a wrecked bridge near Borgo Grappa, they got out and started to walk, escorted by a flock of politely curious Italians on bicycles. At 7:31 Buckley met a force moving south from the Anzio beachhead - Captain Benjamin Harrison Souza of Honolulu and his platoon of engineers. The captain and lieutenant stared at each other...
...time, as he lay near death in a cornfield, a passing chaplain murmured: "You're a Christian, aren't you? Well then, that's all right." The third time his right heel was almost torn off. Captain Holmes kept the wound open with a sliver of carrot. "I pinched W's heel a little the other day," wrote his jolly father, "and asked him into what vegetable I had turned his carrot. No answer. Why, into a Pa's nip! was my response." "War," growled his son, "is an organized bore...
...breakdown of British propaganda in the Dominions (especially Australia) has been under inquiry for some time. Hughes's charges were not the first that someone had bungled badly. BEPA could not be certain who the bungler was, but it knew who could tell them: carrot-topped Brendan Bracken, British Minister of Information. OWI men could understand his predicement...
...bird now has its own personal maid, whom it summons either by name or by making a noise like a buzzer. A noisily temperamental showoff, it breakfasts on hard-boiled egg yolks and orange juice, later polishes off a raw carrot and a slice of banana mixed with mockingbird seed. Good performances mean good meals of grapes. But this diet has to be regulated, because Raffles sometimes gets grape-happy and will not perform at all. Raffles sleeps in a nest of hot-water bottles. Being a tropical bird, it could not live otherwise...
...root vegetable called "wobbie," a cross between a carrot and a beet, with three to four times more vitamin C than either, is already under wide cultivation in The Netherlands. The Netherlands Press Agency in London made the announcement, but neglected to allay suspicions as to how wobbie would taste...