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Dupré spun and thundered six preludes and fugues of Bach-a heavy dose even for the hardiest. But before his program was over, small groups had tiptoed up to the chancel to watch his hands fly over the four manuals (keyboards), and his patent-leather pumps dance over the pedals. Said one watcher: "The guy should have been a ballet dancer...
Everything is reduced except "Harvey Harvard," a monstrous sized albino rabbit whose extraordinary dimensions frighten all but the hardiest "pupil" who might feel inclined toward biological experiments and reflex testing...
...Highway (1,600 miles from Dawson Creek, B.C. to Fairbanks), through some of the world's most majestic mountains and some of the continent's most unpeopled wilderness, jogged 20 families a day. Their earthly goods were strapped to their cars. They were the new pioneers, the hardiest (or, some old Alaska hands said, the most foolhardy) of the thousands of Americans who constantly deluge Alaskan clubs, hotels and chambers of commerce with requests for data about the Territory. Most of them were looking for a home...
...hardiest rivals were Little Pierre, a sleek Labrador also owned by Bakewell, an Eastern dog named Scoronine, and a picturesque Golden retriever with a storybook name-Stilrovin Nitro Express. Some of the others had lost out by committing sins of youth and inexperience: 1) breaking ahead of the signal, 2) going after a decoy instead of a duck, 3) biting the birds too hard. On the water tests, excitable Little Pierre, who was not yet four, hit the water like an outboard motor, bore down on the floating ducks and hustled back. But when the chips were down, Pierre handled...
...when the target was announced, he later recalled, "My first instinct was to jump overboard." On the first day at Truk, 127 land-based Jap planes were shot down, 77 more were bagged on the ground. On the second day, not one got off the ground. Two of the hardiest myths of the war in the Pacific had been exploded: 1) Truk was not impregnable; 2) in a contest with seaborne planes, land-based air power was no better than its planes and pilots...