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...hands of the Japanese and spent 39 painful months in Japanese prison camps, undernourished, beaten and abused by his jailers. At the end of World War II, he was escorted by Russian troops from the prison camp at Sian, Manchuria. When he appeared on the deck of the U.S.S. Missouri, at the Japanese surrender, he was a sick skeleton weighing only...
...York's photogenic Mayor Vincent ("Impy") Impellitteri celebrated his 27th wedding anniversary by posing behind a double-deck cake with his wife Betty, and bussing her in a manner that would do him no harm in the city's forthcoming free-for-all mayoralty contest. That done, he and Betty, herself no slouch at politics, went off to the next event: opening up a "Women for Impy" headquarters...
...first carrier ordered from the U.S. to Korean waters, and the first one to reach Hawaii after the armistice. Her planes had flown 7,243 combat sorties; she claims more landings and more catapult shots than any other carrier off Korea. But on the huge flight deck, the newsmen found the ship's band dressed in colorful kimonos and coolie hats, giving out with the jazzy wails of China Night. Far from war-weary, the Philippine Sea turned out to be a floating fraternity house...
...sugared sherbet, fruit and sweetmeats twenty times a day." Off the isle of Corfu he found he could take the lash of fortune as well as her caress. When the ship seemed certain to go down in a storm, and even the captain "burst into tears and ran below deck," young Byron, with as much bravery as bravado, "wrapped myself up in my Albanian capote (an immense cloak) and lay down on deck to wait the worst." On shore, his valor was heartily rewarded by the female population of Greece...
Said Christie: "I gassed the three women whose bodies were found in the alcove by getting them to sit in a deck chair in the kitchen between the table and the door. There is a gas pipe on the wall next to the window that at one time had been used for a gas bracket. The pipe had been plugged. I took the plug out and pushed a piece of rubber tubing over the pipe. I put a chink in the tube with a bulldog clip to stop the gas escaping. When they sat in the deck chair with...