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...slick with oil and glaring in the searchlights of the triumphant Japs. In the morning a raft full of wounded and exhausted sailors saw the sight of their lives-Gillan sitting elegantly on a large plank, dressed in nothing but his Mae West and an officer's pith helmet. As he swept by. the lieutenant politely tipped his topi and remarked in clipped tones, "Good morning, gentlemen...
...next morning Allied howitzers and trucks lay sprawled in the ditch along a supply road called the "Goat Trail." Not many ROKs showed up at aid stations or mobile hospitals; most of their wounded were in enemy hands. Stragglers without guns and helmets, and sometimes without shoes, appeared one by one. When asked where their equipment was, they shrugged. One said, "A helmet makes more noise in the bushes than the man who's wearing it does...
...National Sports Car Races on the runways of Offutt Air Force Base at Omaha, photographers came upon General Curtis E. LeMay, chief of the Strategic Air Command, got him to pose in a flowery shirt and crash helmet behind the wheel of his souped-up Cadillac-Allard...
...Received Greece's Economic Coordination Minister Spyros Markezinis, who brought to the White House 1) a gold medal designating the President an honorary citizen of Athens, 2) a 2,400-year-old bronze helmet, 3) an 8,000-year-old ceramic flask, 4) a necklace, made of ancient Greek coins, for Mamie. ¶ Accepted the resignation of New York Investment Banker William Henry Draper Jr., 58, as U.S. Special Representative in Europe. Wrote Draper: "[You have given promise] that under your leadership the world will be spared the horrors of a third world war." Replied the President...
Beyond Gravity. Yet Westerners who talk glibly of "making more Titos" forget that the West had little to do with making the original Tito. The marshal clapped on his space helmet and plunged on his own into the unexplored outer realms of Communist heresy. It was not until he passed beyond the pull of Kremlin gravity that the West gave a helping hand...