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...night of Jan. 30, Private Edward S. Gordon of the 4th Marines was eating a piece of bread he had made from rice flour. Rifle fire shattered the darkness. A Jap sentry, standing on a watch tower listening to the night's hush, tumbled to the earth. The crump of grenades mingled with ripping bursts from automatic weapons. Japs screamed orders, fell before the headlong rush of dimly seen figures brandishing knives and pistols. Unmistakably American voices yelled: "This is a prison break-make for the main gate! These are Yanks...
...Others: Boss Ed Crump's Memphis machine; Mayor Ed Kelly's Chicago machine...
...alarmed. Huey Long, Bilbo and Boss Crump managed without grand opera; and grand opera north of the Mason & Dixon Line manages without Hague, Pendergast and Curley...
...ears of the citizens still rang the crump of heavy bombs, the thunderous rumble of pulverized masonry settling into rubble. Shattered were the post office, the Palais du Commerce, university buildings. The cathedral's stained-glass windows hung in lacy tatters. It was not the U.S. guns or planes that had done this. The departing Germans had set time bombs which exploded throughout the night. The wreckage was a reminder...
...crump of Russian bombs in Helsinki splintered the frozen stillness of the Finnish winter. Over Finland's radio came the numbing news that Cordell Hull had warned the Finns to quit the war at once. It was Hull's third try, but the first to reach the ears of most Finns. In the white forests and around the windswept shores of Finland's myriad icebound lakes, Finns blinked and wondered...