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...McCormack: "I talked with Admiral Leahy this morning-and I think all the American people will accept Admiral Leahy's word. ... I can quote him: 'The story about the dog is made out of whole cloth. The dog was never lost...
...wandering around the garden with a cloth to her mouth. She was bleeding in the gums and all her teeth loosened . . . and she was partly hysterical. And all the chickens were up in the trees flapping their wings which sort of added to the unreality. Paula, (10), was quiet and subdued. Young Andrew, (3), had a mouthful of dirt from the blast and was crying miserably. Funny about Andrew-he wouldn't go through the house to the street and for three days he howled if you took him near a house...
...cave. But this was a well-constructed hole which went deep into the earth and heaven knows how far back. About all that came to the surface was the wooden framing of two-inch planks and a cheap suitcase filled with shirts and silk underwear and an empty cloth pocketbook...
...seven-day trial last April, a policeman testified that he attended a Duncan seance, tried to grab a ghost, instead caught Mrs. Duncan stuffing a white cloth down her bodice...
...almost as thin as hatpins, for penetration of an enemy head just below the ear. One brave demonstrated the razor sharpness of his machete by clipping tough field grass with lazy swings. Another, carrying steel knuckles crested with sharp spikes, gave the points a final affectionate polishing with emery cloth as he waited for the take-off for France. Though the official maximum weight for a 24-ft. chute is 280 lbs., some of the Indians in full accoutrement weighed well over 350. No one was willing to make them lighten up. For a week before invasion they had been...