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Landing on the Riviera, Johnston lugged his recording gear through Savoy to the link-up with Patton's army, advancing through the dragon's teeth of the Siegfried Line. The Seine was his fifth river, but the only experience Johnston records in Paris is of an unsuccessful brothel crawl. Soon he was back with Patton, blasting a path towards the Americans encircled in Bastogne. That Christmas, General Patton issued greeting cards with a prayer for good weather so that his fighter-bombers could strafe the Nazi armor. When the skies began clearing slowly, old Blood and Guts ordered...
...postwar Britain has more than recouped in numbers what it lost in splendor. Its yacht squadrons have trebled since 1939, with smaller classes ranging from 12-ft. "Firefly" dinghies to 29-ft. International Dragon sloops. More than 600 clubs now belong to the Royal Yachting Association. As in the U.S.. sailing in Britain has undergone a middle-class renaissance...
...world's top yacht designers, boom companion and helmsman to the Duke of Edinburgh. He and Prince Philip fared no better than second, successively sailing in Uffa's 20-ton sloop Fresh Breeze, the Duke's Fox-designed Coweslip, and his slim Dragon-class sloop Bluebottle. But they had a fine time anyway. At his home, a converted waterfront warehouse, Uffa presided over the nightly after-dinner festivities that lasted until dawn. At a dinner for the Imperial Poona Yacht Club, he donned a pith helmet and led his cronies in spoon-hammering sea chanties. Said...
...rearmed, democratic Germany. The Soviets were overcommitted: with less than a third of U.S. industrial capacity, they were at tempting to keep up an atomic armament race with the U.S. An enormous part of Russia's armaments was disappearing in the maw of the Red Chinese dragon, and the Soviet people, under cruel economic burdens, were restive. It appeared the Soviet leaders wanted a "respite...
...named Kriemhild. Brunhilde, a kind of earth-mother goddess, carries a torch for her lost love, but Hagen, the One-eyed, who believes the pagan gods have been flouted by this turn of affairs, pries from Kriemhild the secret of Siegfried's sole weakness. In slaying the sacred dragon of the Dwarf people, Siegfried has been drenched in the monster's en chanted blood except for one spot where a leaf stuck to his back. Hagen hurls his long spear through the mortal skin, Brunhilde impales herself on Siegfried's grave, and Kriemhild swears undying revenge...