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...manner as to give cameramen a dramatic shot of a historical figure returning to the place of his birth. Stevenson is met at the door by Miss Bertha Mott, current occupant of the house, who says, 'Since I was a little girl, it has been my ambition to fetch a glass of water for a President. May I have that honor...
...Tumble Down. Ninety minutes later, in high elation, they started down. Nightfall pinned them on an icy hogback. Broennimann slipped, the rope which tied him to Marx spun out and then broke, and he tumbled 100 ft. to fetch up in soft snow with a broken rib. In darkness, his feet beginning to freeze, he got back to high camp, where Marx rejoined...
...Enclosure 10, which the Eighth Army rated a model camp. Most of its 8,000 prisoners had theoretically been screened as antiCommunists. A bunch of Red troublemakers were ordered to come out of one compound; when they refused, U.S. troops, backed by four tanks, were sent in to fetch them. The Reds hurled spears and barbed-wire flails; the Americans retaliated with tear gas and concussion grenades which stun but do not kill. Fiercest fighters of all were 600 Red amputees who hopped about on their stumps, using their crutches as clubs. Nine G.I.s were wounded; one Red was killed...
...lariats, old shoes, autographed pictures, boxing gloves, back-newspaper files, geological maps, menus of note worthy Carter banquets and excursions, baseballs and teetering stacks of old correspondence. Like the late W. C. Fields in his bookkeeping role, he can plunge into the dustiest, most disheveled pile of papers and fetch out the document he wants...
...that Philip was such a slob. At a dressy dinner at Chesterfield House, he gobbled so earnestly at a plate of gooseberries topped with whipped cream that his face was soon lathered. Humiliated before his guests, Chesterfield quipped to Philip's servant: "John, why do you not fetch the strop and the razors? You see your master is going to shave himself." When Philip botched his maiden speech in the House of Commons, Chesterfield finally scrapped the dream that he would ever make a man, or even a manikin of distinction...