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...into the town's edge, found the Germans dug in. Usually Jerry held on to a position as long as possible, then withdrew after blowing up bridges, demolishing buildings, mining and booby trapping. This time, fresh troops of the First Paratroop Division, under the command of heavy-jowled, cigar-smoking Major General Richard Heidrich, had orders to fight to the last man and the last round...
...staff car rolled to a dockside some where in New Guinea, discharged a four-star passenger. Columns of green-clad U.S. soldiers boarding transports recognized Douglas MacArthur's plain shirt and trousers, braided cap, plump cigar. Brigadier General Julian Cunningham walked over, saluted...
...Churchill's." President Roosevelt drove about Cairo in a special Packard, bulletproofed with sheets of glass that weighed 90 lb. He called it "my county jail." His driver was Master Sergeant Harold A. Crotta, of Butler, N.J., who proudly showed correspondents a little pile of cigar ash on the running board. Said Sergeant Crotta: "Yep. It's Churchill...
...back in New York, you know.' " Long-famed as an uninhibited collector of 1) the first engineering degree given a woman by the University of Wisconsin, 2) monkeys, 3) the lowdown, 4) U.S.-banked royalties on her best-selling The Soong Sisters, 5) Manila cigar ashes, Miss Hahn introduced a reporter to the most unconventional item in her Oriental collection: her two-year-old, Chinese-babbling daughter Carola...
...early age George quit public school and joined a roller-skating act. Then he formed a ballroom-dancing act with a 16-year-old girl whom he named Hermosa José, after a five-cent cigar...