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...friendship and aid in one balzing journalistic crusade against the forces of Evil in the town as personified by a crooked (-onely-don't-worrry-dear-reader-he-reforms-in-the-end-) politician, and his even crackeder cronies, one triangle (eternal), one father-and-son squabble, numerous fights (gun, fist, and umbrella), and, to add that necessary punch line, a gala torchlight parade to the local hoosegow...
...last week, told of a typical moment at one of those fabulous 25-toast sessions: "One of the officials seized a big china plate that was on the table. He said: 'When we Russians like somebody, we break a plate-like this.' And he raised his huge fist and crashed it down on the plate, smashing it to pieces...
Whereupon, said Nelson: "I reached out and grabbed two plates, and I said: 'When we Americans like somebody we break two plates-like this.' And I hit two plates with my fist. The plates broke all right, and my friend and the others present embraced me with enthusiasm. . . . 1 did not mind the scratch. ... It gave me an opportunity to say that my blood was merely a token-a little American blood on the Russian front...
...around his balding old head, white sideburns creeping down his pink cheeks. Grover Cleveland leans back in majestic bulk, the imperious, mustachioed symbol of the era of bankers and builders. Teddy Roosevelt stares through his pince-nez with impatient energy, head belligerently forward, right hand resting on table, left fist clenched at the hip. And Franklin Roosevelt relaxes, hands on chair arms, in a pose so familiar that not even the bad, sharp lines of the Albany portrait can obscure...
With Naples in the fist of Lieut. General Mark Clark's Fifth Army and Foggia behind General Sir Bernard Montgomery's Eighth, the Americans and British had clinched a useful victory in southern Europe. In 29 days they had overrun more than 20,000 square miles of territory inhabited by 8,000,000 people. The timetable had improved over the last one in Sicily, where the Allies needed 38 days to conquer 10,000 square miles. They were one-third the long way up Italy's boot, well on the way to Rome. Around Salerno, the hard...