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Young and Cocky. Fighting Two started out with young and cocky confidence. Their emblem was a green dragon tearing a Jap flag to shreds. "Mom" Chung, the servicemen's devoted foster mother in San Francisco (TIME, Sept. 11), had designed it for them, especially for their leader, Commander William A. Dean Jr. They called themselves the "Rippers...
Tito's movement attracted the most followers. He struck the Germans at every chance, captured their supplies and arms. His Partisans, dispersed through the hills, ate when they could, which was not often, fought when they could, which was often enough. The Partisan emblem was a red, five-pointed star. For a time a yellow hammer & sickle was used by one brigade, soon was discreetly dropped. Word spread through the hills, towns and cities : a remarkable Croat named Tito was fighting the Germans. Yugoslavs from all classes and political parties joined him, including, last week, a son of Mihailovich...
...huge uncluttered desk. A reserved man, shunning formal gatherings, he nevertheless likes to cock one foot on the desk and talk at length. He smokes incessantly-through a bamboo holder-and drinks tea without pause. He has good relations with the press (still sports his Australian Journalists Association emblem on his watch chain) and is a master at handling irate delegations. Recently a party went up from Sydney, determined to have a showdown on a union matter. When they got back, their fellows demanded a report. Lamely, the leader replied: "We never quite got to the matter you mean...
...could watch the elephants all day. He admires elephant-foot carpets, likes little ivory jumbos on his desk. Some friends think he has taken on elephant characteristics, among them a stupendous memory. For his headquarters when he commanded Britain's PAI force (Persia & Iraq) he designed an emblem with a rampaging elephant, trunk uplifted...
...shuffled in. They stood with bowed heads as the chaplain prayed, listened to copybook homilies on justice, freedom, democracy. With each installment they received a memento: with justice, a red poppy and a copy of the U.S. Constitution; with freedom, a tiny flag; with democracy, the bronze Legion emblem. They raised their right arms-all except the veteran who had left his on Guadalcanal-to take the Legion oath. The commander spread his arms in a clerical gesture, intoned again: "Comrades, I welcome...