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...seriousness. "Lying in the grass, just watching, is not sufficient," says Heaton. The complete conchophilist must know snails in their nocturnal ramblings-as they scale the Himalayas of a graveled garden walk, patiently penetrate the jungles of a zinnia border, or chew the bloom off prize winning Gloire de Dijon roses...
...recognition in your magazine [TIME, April 8]. However, you didn't quite do right by AFN. You stated that AFN established stations in Le Havre and Paris for the entertainment of the G.I.s. This is very true, but we also had stations in Marseilles, Nice, Dijon, Nancy, Reims, Biarritz, and Munich, Berlin, Bremen, Kassel and Frankfurt in Germany. These -Svengali, the villain-hypnotist; by Trilby's author and illustrator, George Du Maurier. fixed or permanent stations were also augmented by mobile stations with the ist, 7th, gth and isth Field Armies. We would have had one with General...
...weeks before Dijon's liberation, two U.S. paratroopers-boyish Captain William Pietsch (rhymes with screech) and Sergeant Robert Baird-dropped down into the area from England. Also parachuted: automatic arms and mortars for 300 men. The two Americans organized the Maquis, led several small attacks, harried the disorganized Germans right & left. Getting bigger ideas, Captain Pietsch set out in an ancient Buick, drove it through German lines, reached the Third Army, borrowed a few U.S. tanks...
With these he set a trap, destroyed a big German convoy, drove on into Dijon, cleaned out the town. When French troops arrived next day, the captain, the sergeant, the Maquis and the U.S. tanks were occupying Burgundy's capital...
...German armies shattered in France, none was in worse plight than the Nineteenth, which had had the job of holding the Mediterranean coast and the great Rhone-Saone highway to Dijon and the Rhine. Hamstrung by Allied air power before it could even get into action, the Nineteenth has never had much of a chance...