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...more, mediocrity everywhere was too strong. I was the giant with the feet of clay-the lot of many youths. But now, my small, small friend, look about you: there has appeared, even within your field of vision, a figure here and a figure there, a shining crest, lavish with its bounty, geniuses beneath the open sky-you and I should bid them welcome. I walk in the evening of life and, trembling, recognize myself in them; they are youth with jeweled eyes. Yet you begrudge them your recognition; yes, you begrudge them fame. Because you are nobody...
...little park at the crest of Chungking hill-where one bloody day last May 200 Chinese were bombed to death because they thought they would be safe from air attack if they hid under trees and bushes -a gay new game was being played last week. It was called "Get the Traitors." Five papier-mâché puppet heads were arranged on the ground. Each represented a Chinese who had sold out to the Japanese. Several paces away laughing Chungking citizens lined up for chances, at 5? a throw, to try to ring the heads with evergreen wreaths. Whoever...
...oldest Senator there was a little bantam-built man with a crabwise walk, a cock-crest of white hair, a mouth that seems to snarl even when he weeps-the Old Dominion fireball, Carter Glass, 82, of Lynchburg...
...clarinetist named Benny Goodman, a shockheaded, galvanic drummer named Gene Krupa, a rangy, adolescent trombonist with an Iowa accent named Alton Glenn Miller. As the years went by, and hot jazz built up from a provincial ripple to a national tidal wave, Clarinetist Goodman rode to shore on its crest and was crowned King of Swing...
...high bridge, Roberts had time to glance aloft, see the sky blotted out by the crest of the wave before it broke over them, hurled men the entire length of the bridge. Small sounds in the Niagara thunder of the blow were the smashing of glass, furniture, superstructure, screams of passengers that the ship was going down, shrieks of the injured...