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Lieut. Francis Xavier Buckley, a carrot-thatched engineer from Philadelphia, was tooling his jeep northward from Terracina along the coastal road, accompanied by a private. When they came to a wrecked bridge near Borgo Grappa, they got out and started to walk, escorted by a flock of politely curious Italians on bicycles. At 7:31 Buckley met a force moving south from the Anzio beachhead - Captain Benjamin Harrison Souza of Honolulu and his platoon of engineers. The captain and lieutenant stared at each other...
...ruined olive groves and the drab, pathetic rubble of small Italian towns, exultant Frenchmen with glittering eyes were rubbing out the memory of June four years ago. Down the dusty, twisting road from the ancient hill village of Esperia, toward Monticelli and the pockmarked Liri Valley, buzzed a jeep with the shield of a general of France. "Voila le grand Charlie!" sweaty Frenchmen shouted to one another, and froze in proud salute...
Died. Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, 80, dean of English belle-lettrists, two months after he was hit by a jeep; in Fowey, Cornwall. Known to all Eng land as "Q," red-haired Quiller-Couch (Couch, pronounced Cooch, means red in Celtic) wrote the first of his 30 romantic novels (Dead Man's Rock) in 1887, edited the Oxford Book of English Verse. An Oxford graduate, he was longtime (since 1912) King Edward VII Professor of English Literature at Cambridge. He always wore traditional morning dress to his lectures, relaxed in old clothes and a battered brown derby...
...plane crashed in the Himalayas. Tabbed "Madame Cheesecake" by the G.I.s, she was given a scroll by vinegary Lieut. General Joe Stilwell which identified her as a Dead End Kid (because she went to the end of the line). In Burma and China, Pioneer Paulette rode many an extra jeep mile to get to plumbing, often brushed her teeth with canned grapefruit juice, washed her underwear in a helmet, herself in leftover...
...proportion on the ground as well as in the air which this correspondent believes is so well rooted nothing will upset it. ... He has a touch of iciness ... of truly Arctic proportions. . . . But this kid is a 'speed demon'. . . . Numerous white hairs have been caused by his jeep-driving. . . . [He] apparently has a notion that cars were made to travel on two wheels...