Word: helmets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After the race, Gus looked gloomily at the untapped kegs in his cellar. In London that night there was little of the tipsy tradition that made it a duty of The Day to knock off at least one bobby's high-domed helmet. A girl at her first boat race asked her young man: "What does one do after a boat race?" "Go home," he said...
Last week the Salzburg Festival was on again-under the wary eye of the American Military Government. White-helmet-ed MPs directed generals' limousines through cobbled streets. Inside the Festspielhaus some 50 hand-picked Austrians in dowdy evening clothes, were carefully segregated from U.S. soldiers who filled two-thirds of the auditorium. The concert began with s balcony speech by General Mark Clark. Then the Mozarteum Orchestra, including 27 musicians ousted by the Nazis, played Mozart, Lehar and Johann Strauss...
Kiefer, who wore a helmet with "Dixie" boldly stenciled on it, had been executive officer of the old Yorktown at the Coral Sea battle (where he won the D.S.M.), and at Midway (where the York sank and he got the Navy Cross for heroism). There he had jumped from the ship and shattered his right leg and ankle...
...helmet left behind when the Japanese stole quietly away from jog-bound Kiska...
There He Is! As the crowds roared their applause, he stood stiffly erect in a Fire-Department touring car, bowing, saluting, holding his helmet over his heart. At Lexington, where the world-heard shot was fired in 1775, citizens had raised a banner: "WELCOME GEORGE BLOOD 'N' GUTS PATTON. NICE GOING!" At Cambridge City Hall the car drove beneath arched Fire-Department ladders. Handed a gavel .made from the Washington Elm, Georgie Patton promised, "I'll cherish it forever...