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...perhaps made some notes on his cuff as he went along: noted how the wind seeped through the flimsy walls of the Eastbound Inn at the Newfoundland base as the ferry crews waited for the weather to lift. He would need no notes to remember the radio jam as the squadron approached Britain, and plane after plane called for bearings from ground stations...
While the committees went into their marathon, Beaverbrook and Harriman wasted no time contemplating their gavels. They talked figures at each other, rushed out to see a few sights, did a little shopping (Lord Beaverbrook bought some caviar and strawberry jam), met some real generals, called on Premier Joseph Stalin and roared mutual urgencies, and generally thrashed about at what the Russians delightedly called "Americanski temp...
Physically, the Budenny specimen is still, at 58, superb. He rides like a trooper, fences without guards, can snuff out a candle with a revolver bullet at 40 paces. He has a voice like the roar of a breaking ice-jam. Manly to excess, he is a born leader in the medieval sense of the term...
This time Odessa has dug in for another bloody event. For trench digging, 100,000 spades have been manufactured in the caviar and sturgeon canning factories within, the past six weeks. Its defenders have been busy manufacturing "Molotov cocktails" (impromptu bombs) out of jam and fish cans; hatchets; crowbars; homemade armored cars. A sign in the telegraph office reads: "We do not guarantee time of arrival...
...identity of Der Snag was that he was a onetime Viennese journalist named Ernst Fischer. Russian circles in London also guessed that Foreign Vice Commissar Soloman Abramovich Lozovsky, who speaks perfect German and likes a little joke, slipped a word in now and then. The Nazis tried to jam out the voice, but succeeded only in jamming out their own broadcast. One night they put three news broadcasters on the air, one following another without pause so as to thwart the Red radio. They talked so fast that nobody understood a word they said...