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Only Children Chattered. Only the children laughed or talked loudly, still resilient in suffering. One man carried a child pickaback (he stopped us and asked in good, crisp English what the news was from the German battlefront). Others carried children in baskets slung from shoulder staves. One enormous Bactrian camel bore a little child between its two humps...
...most of the U.S. it was Nov. 19, a crisp autumn Sunday. For a home in Cheyenne, Wyo. and a pale, three-year-old boy with a freshly barbered cowlick, it was Christmas. Ten doctors had agreed last month that young Forest ("Nubbins") Hoffman, 22 Ibs., bedridden for more than six weeks with incurable sarcoma of the bladder, would probably not live until...
...first heavy snows were sifting over the eastern front. While the Germans watched apprehensively the Red Army stirred. The breath of men and horses steamed in the crisp air. Soldiers stamped on the frozen mud roads to warm themselves. Winter and fighting weather had returned to the east...
...White House announcement, published only three months after Stilwell had been made the Army's sixth four-star general,* was a crisp, close-mouthed paragraph. It gave no explanation of General Stilwell's unceremonious removal from his glamorous list of jobs as 1) Chief of Staff to Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek; 2) Deputy to Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten. Commander in Chief of Allied Forces, Southeast Asia; 3) U.S. Commander of the China-Burma-India theater...
...crowds who came to the rallies saw a crisp, vigorous young man, usually wearing a neatly pressed dark suit and starched collar, who entered at the precise moment his name was mentioned in the introduction, who had perfect stage presence, who never sweated except when the klieg lights bore down too heavily, a man who made clear, concise-and mercifully short-speeches...