Word: em
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lions Tremble. Fredendall's successor is a tank man. George Patton's favorite motto (expurgated) is "Grab 'em by the nose and kick 'em in the tail." In 1916 he was a dashing, cocky young cavalryman and aide to "Black Jack" Pershing; in Mexico. When he went to France in World War I he organized the first U.S. tank brigade, returned to study that new wrinkle in modern warfare, and to help develop it when the U.S. Army at last got around to it in a serious...
Give 'Em an Inch. . . . In Denver, Mrs. J. L. Mathews let a stranger use her telephone, after he had gone found no nickel, no telephone...
...Hollywood playgrounds: the Agua Caliente race track (now closed for the duration) and the La Playa Hotel at Ensenada. Undaunted by the fact that several other U.S. citizens had tried, with little success, to revive racing in Mexico, Pagliai got the ear of Wall Street Financier Ben ("Sell 'em-Short") Smith, who had developed an interest in horse racing by taking planeloads of friends to Kentucky Derbies. Assured of Smith's enthusiasm, Pagliai then convinced polo-playing President Manuel Avila Camacho that horse racing would benefit Mexican horse breeding, Good Neighbor relations and tourist trade...
...arrival at the target and you watch the clock on the dashboard crawl by. Then . . . you see your destination. The speed is picked up and there is a last-minute check on the instruments. Conversation picks up briefly-"Is this the bus to Baltimore?"-"Clear the bombways"-"Give 'em hell, doc" -"Here we go." All this is over interphone; . . . there is no talk between ships but you know how the others feel. . . . And then you're in it. Black puffs of smoke begin breaking in front of the nose, off the wing, right overhead. They break suddenly...
...striking Wilkes-Barre anthracite coal miner, sat in his kitchen talking to Philadelphia Record Reporter Johnston D. Kerkhoft. Suddenly a telephone call brought him stunning news. One of his two Navy sons had been killed in the Pacific. Servaczgo burst out: "I ain't a traitor, damn 'em, I ain't a traitor. I'll stay out until hell freezes over...