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...always remained "the G.I.'s general." He was a tireless infantry leader who seemed to be everywhere at once. Dressed in a grimy old trench coat, his fatigues stuffed into his boots, "Brad" would frequently abandon his desk at headquarters for flights to the front in a Piper Cub. There, he insisted on inspecting everything from forward outposts to latrines. Though not noted for eloquence, he enjoyed addressing the troops in his flat Missouri twang, and he gave them plain talk. "Fellows like me have been in this business a long time," he told a unit being trained...
...press room to see if the teletype machine was free. Not only was it unoccupied. McConnell discovered, it had disappeared. The Quaker editor panicked for a moment, and then managed to reach the Globe by phone. He ended up reading his story over the telephone, just like any cub reporter...
...than any porcupine that can't play God Bless America on the musical goose-horns is worth. He sells an ostrich egg for $17, a slink of ferrets for $21 apiece, two ducks for $4 each, and a pregnant monkey named Bonnie for $575. A female African lion cub, not more than 6 in. high, 30 in. long including tail, and only a few weeks old, goes for $450. "Dime a dozen," says a professional cat man. "Everybody's got too many lions...
...groans, "and no matter what I did, the shells kept bouncing off me. The men in those sequences had jackets, boots and dungarees, while my body was exposed in this off-the-shoulder blouse and a sack skirt." Wagner was comforted somewhat by a cuddly black panther cub, one of her costars, but mostly, she says, "I applied a lot of ice" to that not-so-bionic skin. -By Claudia Wallis
Three hundred and fifty years after its founding, the city of Boston yesterday wrapped up a summer of birthday festivities by eating ice cream and a birthday cake of nearly a ton and by watching a parade of G.I.s, ex-Vietnam POWs, Cub Scouts and marching bands...