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...Americans Had Come. Someone dragged me out of the jeep and began patting my back and shaking my hand. An old man knelt before me weeping and clasped his hands around my arm. All of us found ourselves swept into a sea of smiling faces. There was more clapping, more cheers. The Americans had come at last...
...humorist, Ring Lardner, left four sons. They all became writers. Jim died in Spain, fighting as a member of the International Brigade-the last American to enlist, and the last to be killed. David served as a war correspondent for The New Yorker, was killed in Germany when his jeep ran into a minefield. John is a sports columnist for Newsweek. The fourth brother, Ring Jr., last week went to jail...
Newsmen were also among the first U.S. casualties. Burton Crane of the New York Times and Frank Gibney of TIME* were riding in a jeep when a bridge they were about to cross was blown up. They were cut about the face and head...
Looking very intense indeed, as if he were about to land a very hot jet job on a jeep carrier's flight deck, Lifar climbed up on a little box and stared hard at three helicopters parked near him. Then he stretched his arms straight out from his shoulders, and his study in ballon-with motorized ballerinas...
...hunted bustards with jeep-mounted .50s and .45s . . . None of us ever saw them fly. They walk or run their 20 or 30 miles daily to a water hole. When cornered, they courageously face away from you, elevate their posteriors to the proper altitude, and zero in ... To us Desert Rats, they were known by a name other than, but somewhat similar to, bustard...