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Burma's Casey Jones. It was not smooth rolling at first. M.M. & M. "engineers" had to run a gauntlet of Jap snipers, take time out to fight back with Tommy guns. Hastily repaired bridges sagged dangerously, tigers sometimes trespassed on the right of way. But since the first run on July 18, the train has gone through every day, without fail...
...Russian militiamen struggled to keep back the curious crowds. Pravda had warned: "No hooting." Most Muscovites watched in silence; only a few muttered: "Bandits! Murderers! Killers!" Once a woman screamed: "Give me back my daughter! Give me back my daughter!" The crowd hushed her. For the most part, the gauntlet the Germans ran was a silent one. But it was a gauntlet: the hatred in the air was almost a solid...
...birthday, the Committee picked up the solemn request of the Assembly, made three weeks before, and formally declared itself to be the Provisional Government of the French Republic. Many Committeemen had previously opposed the change; only the barbs from London and Washington goaded them into making it now. The gauntlet was down; Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill would have to decide whether to pick it up, try to kick it aside, or ignore...
...gauntlet was down. From now on, no Hollywood hostess was safe. Try as she might to keep her Max Factor powder dry, her very next swimming-pool party might become tomorrow's ideological battleground...
Henry Ford threw down the gauntlet to a gossip columnist. Merry-Go-Rounder Drew Pearson had broadcast that 80-year-old Ford is not up to his job. Cried the wiry octogenarian: "I can lick him in anything he suggests. I never felt better in my life. I don't know how old or young this Pearson person is, or what shape he's in or what he has ever done in the way of athletics. But I'll meet him." Forty-five-year-old Pearson suggested a race-"with any vehicle, foot, bicycle, or Model...