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...Uncle Joe" was puzzled as his car rolled down the driveway. In the courtyard of his Chungking headquarters the entire staff of his China-Burma-India Command stood stiffly at attention. As Uncle Joe stepped out Colonel William ("Zamboanga Bill") Bergin stepped forward and shook his hand. "What is this, an execution?" Lieut. General Joe Stilwell muttered. In answer, Colonel Bergin read the President's citation: for bravery in leading and inspiring Chinese troops under fire in Burma last April. Then "Little Joe" stepped forward. Little Joe is Lieut. Colonel Joseph Stilwell Jr., 30-year-old assistant chief...
...Tobe Deutschmann Co. was down to 40 workers ("all engineers and no workmen"), from 200 in 1928. His machinery was rusting, the floors sagging, windows broken, ceilings cobwebbed. Grass grew in the driveway that led to the Rising Sun Stove Polish factory he bought in plush '28. Tobe's engineers became expert in repairing broken-down equipment with bailing wire and tweezers. The only way they kept alive at all was on small specialty jobsקike keeping the tenants from moving out of an apartment house en masse because of radio static, whose source they finally traced...
...damage on the crash in Wellesley was extensive, though the driver was not hurt. He swerved from the road to avoid another car, which in turn was skidding to a stop as a third car backed out of an icy driveway...
...noon next day the President sat back in the deep cushions of the big closed car, adjusted his big dark Navy cape. The gravel spattered from the driveway, the car moved off slowly around the south lawn, and up the long clear stretch of Pennsylvania Avenue toward the looming dome of the Capitol. On each running board perched a Secret Service man. His car was flanked on both sides by open Secret Service cars, three men on each running board, four men inside. The men in the tonneaus held sawed-off riot guns. Those outside carried .38-caliber service revolvers...
...paid no attention. Then things happened fast. He 1) knocked the chimney off a house, 2) tore down a high-tension line and put the stadium lights out, 3) ran out of gas. Landing willy-nilly, he headed for a crowded parking lot, plunked his ship down in a driveway, rolled to a stop ten feet short of the nearest automobile. Said an astounded superior: "That used up all the luck he's entitled...