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...Scottie broke into our conversation at this point with "Come on, yer Nazi bastard-save yer talk fer later...
Colonel Elliott Roosevelt, briefly in Manhattan after months overseas, turned up in a Broadway night scene. Max Huddle, 30, dance-hall manager, ex-bouncer, 4-Fer, was holding his own against four soldiers who had tried to take his taxi, when, he swore, another taxi drew up and Colonel Roosevelt stepped out, stopped the fight, told everyone to "scram." Huddle, bruised and breathing hard, filed a complaint with the Army Provost Marshal against the G.I.s, called Roosevelt a "taxi-commando, [who] acted like he was God Almighty...
Said one mountaineer: "Shorely must be aworkin' fer the Lord fer ye hain't beggin' fer money nor atalkin' denomination...
...preacher, I reckon I kin trust ye ter keep a secret. Hit's always been a deep sorrer in my life, I kin tell ye. My own children don't know and nobody else here knows. But, preacher, I feel I ain't much longer fer this world and I jist gotta confess hit ter somebody...
...supply route to China may soon be using it, avoiding the 20,000-ft.-high "oxygen run" across the Hump and stepping up the deliveries to Major General Claire L. Chennault's Fourteenth Air Force and the Chinese armies. To this airfield, too, reinforcements for Stilwell can be fer ried even during the monsoon...