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...first chapter was written in 1865, when seven bearded Swedes drifted out of the Big Horn Mountains, halted in a cottonwood grove to pan the gravel of an icy foothill creek. It was rich with coarse gold. They built a cabin, went feverishly to work. Three days later a band of Sioux swept down on them. Only two prospectors escaped. They headed for the Oregon Trail with three baking powder cans of gold, spent a fretful winter at Fort Laramie, then started back to claim the creek's treasure. They were never seen again...
...Tuesday the SS guards made their preparations. All day the prisoners moved weakly around their barracks or stretched restlessly in the hot April sunshine in the narrow gravel yard around their barracks. Among themselves they discussed all the possible fates the brutal Germans might be planning for them, talked of escape and what to do, but none of them did anything. Years of imprisonment had taken too heavy a toll of their capacity for action...
...jungle boogie-woogie, sophisticated orchestration, 5-16 rhythms, Latin dance tunes and instrumental oddities. Manhattan's Philharmonic -Symphony, playing two of his major works (Choros No. 8 and 9) last week with Villa-Lobos himself directing, had to improvise for such strange percussion properties as the caxambu (a gravel-filled bottle...
Quick Start. With Flanders came 29 officers, 735 enlisted men, and 9,000 tons of equipment. Next day, while fighting went on in plain view, survey parties, each including six engineer-riflemen, set out to plot the new field. Within 24 hours they had bulldozed enough coral gravel to fill in 600 shell craters, and the first P47 Thunderbolt fighter landed...
...first real break was as the juvenile lead in A Guy Named Joe. After two weeks' shooting he was in an auto wreck, got a hole punched in his skull and his brain punched full of roadside gravel. But the Joe company voted unanimously to keep his role on ice for his recovery. And the accident, like the war (for which it incapacitated him) is, he realizes, as responsible for his popularity as his own personableness, which is considerable, and his seriousness about his work, which is boundless...