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...heavy financial outlay from such of the 8,000,000 U.S. set owners who want CBS color programs to appear on their screens. In order to watch color shows even in black-and-white, TV fans will have to purchase a $35 "adapter," while complete conversion to color will cot at least another $75 for a "converter." And there is little sign that many adapters and converters will be on the market for a long time...
...other day I saw one exhausted L-5 pilot, after eleven straight hours over enemy territory, stagger to his tent and flop on a cot. A moment later his commanding officer shook him and said: "We've got a kid over here shot through the throat. We've got to get him to Taegu. Can you keep awake?" The pilot struggled to his feet and muttered: "Litter case? I'm awake." He walked over to his plane and looked in at an ivory-faced boy with a tube dangling from his throat. The pilot stepped...
...first passenger to think of the hostess was William Haigh. He left his seat and pulled her free of the debris in the galley. Sue Cramsie was still conscious, but one arm was broken and badly gashed. The other passengers tried to make her comfortable on a makeshift cot of coats and pillows...
During Easter week, with valise and violin, Blandino went to Procida. There he dispatched letters to the Pope and to the Italian President, Premier and Minister of Justice, renewing his plea for legal recognition of voluntary substitutions. He slept on a cot in the same room with other prisoners, set up an altar in the reception room, commiserated with the war criminals and their visiting relatives. To newsmen he said: "Why have the Allies let big people go, and let the innocent ones who can't afford lawyers stay in jail? These people had to do as they were...
Clapped into solitary for stealing luminal from the prison dispensary, Grandstaff could compose without disturbance. He wrote on the walls, worked out rhythmic passages by pounding his commode and the frame of his cot. When he was released from solitary, he put words & music on paper...