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...arms which Lieut. General Courtney Hicks Hodges' First U.S. Army had thrown around Aachen in a classic bear hug had posed two deadly questions to the Germans : 1 ) should the ancient spa (and modern textile and coal mining center) be defended to the last cellar, as a Stalingrad-like model for the German home front? 2) was it also the focus of the main Allied offensive to smash the Siegfried Line...
Ditches for Precision. The bombers' targets were close enough to the U.S. lines to make sweating doughboys hug their ditches and curse in exasperated admiration. An American battalion commander who had to take his outfit forward in a few minutes fought with a bulky phone, trying to find out whether the air operation was running on schedule. He got a connection to regimental HQ, bellowed into the mouthpiece...
...runs a custom tailoring establishment next door to the Beverly Hills, Calif, shop where Babe sells women's sport clothes. Trailing his wife around the course, Zaharias blew smoke from his cigar to show Babe the wind direction, rewarded her on the winning green with a mighty hug and a bouncing buss...
Twofers. In Topeka, Kans., Pete Reilly got an idea for a war-bond rally from an 1878 newspaper item: "Hug socials are now the rage. It costs 10? to hug anyone between 15 and 20, 5? from 20 to 30, $1 to hug another man's wife, bachelor girls two for a nickel, and woman lectur ers free with a chromo thrown...
Abracadabra. In Rio de Janeiro, Dona Rosa met an old friend she had not seen in five years, gave her the ritual hug (abraco&) of Rio residents, broke three of her ribs...