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...Martin, were "Fatigue, Hunger and Cold"; men ate birch bark, old shoes, pet dogs. "We kept a continual Lent as faithfully as ever any of the most rigorous of the Roman Catholics did and, depend upon it, we were sufficiently mortified." Yet given a small ration of beef and flour and a sack of straw, Martin and his colleagues "felt as happy as any other pigs that were no better off than ourselves." Such wit eased Martin's suffering, but he also had a sharp eye for the ironic moment or the dramatic scene. He describes General Washington...
...duty slacks and Hawaiian shirts. White-helmeted U.S. military police stroll in pairs past the bars and nightclubs of the Rue Catinat. In the high blue sky lie the geometric patterns of contrails from U.S. jets, and at Saigon's busy docks, U.S. ships unload wheat, flour, trucks and military hardware-all the material needed to complete Harkins' mission...
Hayden's father was a Connecticut Yankee who came down with "lung fever," headed West, took the Santa Fe Trail from Independence and finally settled in Arizona. There, on the Salt River, eight miles from a farm village that is now Phoenix, he built a flour mill, started a ferry, opened a general store, a blacksmith shop and a freighting business. Young Carl swam in the Salt River, rode a pet bull while driving cows, recalls seeing Apache fire signals burning at night on nearby Four Peaks. He went to Stanford in 1896 and, as a strapping...
...shower candy on shrieking children. The inevitable office party, despite reassurances of reformed dignity, will end when an overspirited employee tells off the boss-but not before someone has kissed the stenographer. In Yellow Springs, Ohio (pop. 4,167), the mayor and an aide will distribute 10 lbs. of flour and sugar each to every "worthy widow" in honor of ex-Slave Wheeling Gaunt, who left a small trust for that purpose 65 years...
...pack of cigarettes, a half-emptied pint of whisky, a thumb-worn magazine, some tongue-worn memories. In Long Beach, Calif., the whole town will turn out for the annual parade of Christmas floats on the canal. Little schoolchildren will come home brimming with gaiety, to show their flour-and-water pasted Christmas cards to the family, and countless little boys will shuffle into the 5 & 10? stores looking for "a diamond ring for Mommy...