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...field soldier, General "Ike" slept in a tent with a cot and bedroll. Most of the time he was in danger areas; twice German barrages fell in districts he had just left. Once a flak tower from which he had been observing U.S. artillery fire took hits from 88-mm. guns just after he had climbed down...
...Caucasians crazy. So you go out and get yourself a bottle and a woman. This may sound silly or sissy or something, but when you turn on your set and hear good old corny Jack Benny and stuff like that, well, you might, just might lie back on your cot and relax...
Nails through Bones. Dr. X is a tough New Zealander who asked for a transfer to Yugoslavia a year ago after performing 9,000 operations in Africa. On landing he was arrested by guerrillas, freed by Marshal Tito, who told him to set up a 200-cot hospital in a farmhouse...
...sorry to see him go. Last midnight I was chatting with several correspondents and officers. . . . Major Bong was sleepy, climbed into the cot and pulled down the mosquito netting. 'Get the hell out. I am going to sleep,' he remarked pointedly. Obviously he is no respecter of the 'power of the press...
Henry Agard Wallace, often laid out for his oratorical generosities, lay down on a Red Cross cot in Washington, gave his corpuscular pint to the blood bank...