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...hand defense, how to use smoke bombs and hand grenades, and how to sabotage behind the enemy's lines. One cute little trick to decapitate an enemy was learned by Greene while he was visiting Asterloo, Cheese cutters in England are sharp wires with handles at each end. The Guardsman holds both handles in his right hand, slips the wire loop over a German's head from behind, holds his left hand against the enemy's head, and pulls. The wire passes through a man's neck with the same fluid case as through cheese...
...stale flesh, wore herself out with dissipation, while her doltish husband hunted serving wenches and rabbits. (Of Maria Luisa Napoleon said: "Her character is written on her face; it surpasses anything you dare imagine.") Spain's strong man was Don Emmanuel Godoy, a half-educated, country-born ex-guardsman, who had become Prime Minister through his prowess as Queen Maria Luisa's lover...
...National Guardsman John Shea, 23, who had never been to a dentist in his life and showed it, was rejected by Army physicians in New York City. Dogged John Shea hotfooted it to a dentist's office, held his mouth open for ten and a half hours while the dentist drilled and filled. Out came three teeth; in went two bridges, four fillings, five crowns. Next day jaw-sore Patient Shea smiled a false-toothy smile for Army physicians, jumped happily on the train that took his outfit to camp...
Delicate Story (by Ferenc Molnar. produced by Gilbert Miller & Vinton Freedley). The famous Hungarian playwright-refugee Ferenc Molnar (Liliom, The Swan, The Guardsman) apparently has not been too depressed by a world at war. Nowadays he spends much of his time in Manhattan's Plaza Hotel bar, and he has not lost his Continental knack of getting amusement out of the idea of cuckoldry. He is amused by it in Delicate Story. which is so delicate that it almost - but not quite - wastes away. The wife of a Swiss delicatessen-keeper takes a shine to a young man about...
...Home Guardsman Harry Foulds was haled before the magistrates of Chatham, Kent, charged with theft from the Crown of a pistol, ammunition and a helmet which he had taken from a bailed-out German airman. Defense Counsel Gerald Thesinger based his case on Rex v. Broom, in the reign of William III, which was based in turn on a case tried during the reign of Henry VIII. These cases upheld the right of any British subject to retain any property he may be able to seize from "the King's enemy." "Therefore," argued Thesinger, "the property was never vested...