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Watching Jenkins perform at the committee table in Washington, the U.S. television audience will not see him at his best. His most spectacular performances are his final arguments to juries. He pulls his big (6 ft. 3 in., 195 lbs.), rawboned frame out of his chair, opens his coat, loosens his tie, unbuttons his shirt collar, strides up and down before the jury box. At times he laughs, then he sneers, and then he seems to be on the verge of tears; first his voice roars out of the courtroom and echoes through the corridors, then it is a barely...
...months ago, the French asked Chennault for 24 American pilots for the perilous job of flying supplies into Dienbienphu. Earthquake went among the first. The C-119s they flew were on loan from the U.S. Air Force, the U.S. markings barely covered over with one coat of grey paint. The pay was good (about $3,000 a month, including hardship pay and overtime), but if pressed, Earthquake admitted to another reason. "Way I figure it, we either got to fight the bastards at home or fight them over here." When his CAT buddies howled with derisive laughter at the idea...
Into the Russian Guns. "The Brigade advanced with beautiful precision. Lord Cardigan riding alone at their head . . . [in] the gorgeous uniform of the 9 Hussars . . . Instead of wearing his gold-laced pelisse dangling from his shoulders, he had put it on as a coat, and his figure . . . was outlined in a blaze of gold...
...Roaring Lions. At his usual corner table in the Carroll Arms Hotel, during the luncheon recess, McCarthy gulped down a Manhattan, a slice of lamb and coffee. His suit coat was off, his shirt clung to him, soaked through. The going had been hot & heavy, and there was more, much more, to come...
...speckled with the houses and shacks of Dutch, English, French and Kaffir Africans. On the surface, it is like any other valley in the civilized world-"a poor community," says old Jacob Fieldfare, "[where] someone is always frowning over a bill, or scraping to buy a new coat. We tell lies and gossip, our faces are drawn with longing for possessions and qualities which we do not have: power, personality, happiness, electric light, golf championships, more brandy, exciting friends, fame, white skins, a second chance, youth, a penny off the milk or a penny on the milk...