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Soon after their outfit gets a toe hold on the Italian boot, Paratrooper Lieut. Sam Loggins tabs his radioman T/5 Britt Harris as a grandstand soldier. Against Loggins' orders, the corporal guides some medics into an orchard mined by the retreating Germans and helps bring out ten dead and wounded G.I.s. The lieutenant breaks him to private on the spot. Days later, Loggins finds out just how phony the heroism was; Harris had already cased the mine locations on a previous apple-stealing foray...
...characteristically Rubinsteinian feat-part grandstand play, part musical passion. "Anyone could do it," he says with grand self-depreciation, "but no one will imitate me because I won't make a penny on it." Out of his share of the receipts Rubinstein was paying for the accompanying symphony orchestra (mostly members of the New York Philharmonic Symphony) under Conductor Alfred Wallenstein. Despite the backbreaking concert schedule, tireless Artur Rubinstein took on two recording sessions, one of them at midnight (he has sold more than 3,000,000 albums for RCA Victor...
...book is a flashing, at times inspired job of observation. Few who read it will ever have quite the same old romantic about the circus. But what is remarkable about Hoagland's hard look is that the circus seems more fascinating than it ever did from the grandstand. Hoagland, who has himself worked at jobs like Fiddler's during summer vacations, gets off a series of brilliant set pieces: the big top going up, a sudden flare-up of fighting among the elephants, the sadly hilarious wedding day of a stupid wino and a used-up prostitute...
...teeth with the ball. "Are you going to take that?" snarled Honus' manager, Fred Clarke. Honus bided his time, hit another triple, ran right over the first baseman, scared the shortstop out of his path and tore into third so hard he almost belted McGraw back into the grandstand...
...Ohio hills to try out as a pitcher for the Canton baseball team of the Tri-State League. He had no uniform, and the Canton manager did not even bother to use a catcher. One of the team's best batters simply stood in front of the grandstand, and the kid started firing the ball past him. The batter never got a piece of it, and the big farmer's fast ball almost tore up the grandstand backboard. "Looks like a cyclone hit it," said the Canton manager. "Cyclone" Young had earned a nickname and a place...