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...Granny settled in as though she had been a missionary all her life. While Missionary Turnbull and his son labored in the mountains above Port-au-Prince to build a church, parsonage, school and dispensary, Granny went ,"on trail." Outfitted in a tropical helmet and web belt with water flask, she would visit the tiny thatched cailles that dot the ravines and mountains. She told the surprised Haitians about the dispensary and the need to come immediately when they were sick or hurt. She told them about the school. And wherever she could she would wage a persistent Protestant...
...World War II, Capa earned a reputation as the best combat photographer in the world. Although he hated war ("It is like an aging actress: more and more dangerous, and less and less photogenic"), Capa was seldom far from the front lines. Armed with three cameras and a flask of Scotch, he jumped with U.S paratroopers into Nazi-held Germany. At Anzio he landed with the assault troops; on D-day he hit Omaha Beach with the first wave of the 1st Division. "For a war correspondent to miss an invasion," Capa said jauntily, "is like refusing a date with...
Plus a hip flask for that naughty nip of booze...
...field uniform, including the Eisenhower jacket that he wore in France, and an elaborate red wool cloak that signifies that Ike is a corporal in the crack Algerian Spahis of the French army. From Ethiopia came a rhinoceros-hide shield; from Greece, an ancient (800 B.C.) wine flask; and from the District of Columbia, red, white and blue license plate No. 1. Ike himself brought back a bracelet of boar's tusks from his Philippine tour with Douglas Mac-Arthur...
...putting, the first homemade Russian whisky on sale at Gastronom No. I, Moscow's leading grocery store. Sovetsky visky, which, according to New York Times Correspondent Harrison E. Salisbury, "smells like American rye and tastes like not a bad Irish," comes in two sizes: a handy half-liter flask and a large economy-size flagon. Price: 24.7 rubles ($6.17) a pint.* Says the leaflet which accompanies each bottle: "You can drink it straight, from vodka or cognac glasses, mixed with soda water, or with a sliver of lemon and powdered sugar added to taste...