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...country was solidly held by the enemy. Baum's force crashed through Aschaffenburg. German rocket and small-arms fire riddled them. They lost men and vehicles. They hit Gemünden, where a whole German division had just unloaded. They destroyed 50 cars in the railroad yards and "barreled through...
...Exploit. Apparently convinced that the whole 4th Division was driving through, the Germans rushed in men and weapons, counterattacked with tanks. A German plane spotted Baum's column. All that day, in Gemünden, Baum and his men fought desperately. They freed 500 Russians from a stalag. Finally, with the remnants of their force, they assaulted Hammelburg...
When you hear such expressions as "So mote it be" (signifying approval); "Called from labor to refreshment": "Take due notice and govern yourselves accordingly"; and that gem that Blackstone loved and quoted in his Commentaries, "From a time whence the memory of man runneth not to the contrary"; you may well know that the persons who use them are members of "That Ancient and Honorable Institution of Freemasons that has outlived the fortunes of kings and the mutations of empires...
Other Arden horses to watch are Harvey's Pal ("The play Harvey was such a good show"), Blue Gem ("Oh, he's so beautiful; he has eyes of blue") and the $46,000 yearling Colony Boy, named for Manhattan's famed Colony Restaurant. Still another is Knockdown, which placed second in last week's Arlington Futurity...
...clipped this little gem out of a magazine and thought you ought...