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Before the last push began, the German positions were methodically bombed for 80 minutes. A group of bombers attacked every five minutes by the clock. Between assaults, fighter-bombers swooped in to knock out pinpoint targets. Nazi fighters jumped the first group of bombers. They were lumped themselves by escort fighters, and for 15 minutes the air was full of swirling dogfights. Then the Nazi ships fled, and stayed away...
Touring Solomon. Dictator Ubico likes to parade around the country on "trips of inspection." With a military escort, a couple of Cabinet ministers, a mobile radio station and an official biographer, he tears along the roads at breakneck speed. Landowners greet him with floral arches, sometimes line up their Indian laborers days in advance to await his coming. During brief pauses in the villages, he judges intricate cases of law in a minute flat, fires judges, reverses court decisions, releases prisoners, slaps others in jail. Often he makes up his mind simply by staring at a prisoner. Over the portable...
...Firing Squad. The popeyed German officer ordered the soldier who had captured us to escort us toward the center of the town. With raised hands we marched along the main street. The sun shone and bullets whistled between the bombed buildings; the Partisans were gathering on the surrounding hills. We were led into the tree-shaded backyard of the two-story Partisan administration building where some 20 old men, women and children had already been herded. Two German officers were standing in the far corner...
...progress-1) a divorce from Husband Steve Crane, 2) reported trysts with Cinemactor John Hodiak (Lifeboat), 3) a pressagent's dream that her new hairdo would be adopted as the WACs' G.I.-blew up all over a Hollywood nightclub when a photographer caught her dancing with her escort, Actor Peter Lawford...
...range of self-imposed duties, mostly of an escort character. If a blue jacket grew tipsy, Nuisance would grasp his sleeve, guide him understandingly to ward a haven. He regularly rode the interurban between the naval barracks at Simon's Town and the nearby port of Capetown. The railroad long ago gave up trying to collect his fare...