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...while driving, and crashed into a North Chicago bungalow. To remind himself that sleep can be dangerous, he had an artist do a painting of the wreck, hung it in his office. A worrier, he devised ways to check on his salesmen's selling talks. One way: he hid microphones behind pictures and under display radios so that he could listen in on the sales spiel in the privacy of his rooftop office. He pioneered in the building of super-duper radios, sold them to wealthy householders for as much as $15,000 each...
...last Japanese defense line on south ern Okinawa, along the Yaeju-Dake escarpment, was no more. A handful of ene my troops had manned its deep caves, hid den artillery and automatic weapons for a few days; then U.S. weight and power col lapsed them...
After a last drunken, hysterical broadcast, Joyce hid in a Flensburg hotel until he was shooed out by British soldiers, who thought he was a German. Later, on a road leading to Denmark, he met two British officers who were gathering firewood. Joyce could not resist the temptation to show off his ripe Oxonian accent...
...picked the spot to hide in before the Philippines fell. With their fellow refugees, they had lived like natives, eating rice and bananas and sleeping in grass, huts with bamboo floors. Often, when the Japs were rumored to be advancing, they had hurriedly abandoned the little settlement and hid out in native huts or in foxholes until the scare passed. When the Japs finally did come to Hopevale, there was no warning...
N.E.A. went ahead with its investigation as best it might, last week reported its findings. Although closed doors still hid most of the evidence, the investigators had learned enough to compile the most damning report in N.E.A.'s 75-year history...