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Click-Click. On the night of June 6, 1944, Major General Taylor became the first American general to invade Europe when he led his joist Airborne Division on the jump into Normandy. Taylor struggled out of his chute harness and found himself surrounded by mildly curious cows. For 20 minutes, Taylor hunted frantically for his division. Finally he heard the click-click of the toy cricket that his paratroopers used to signal in the darkness. Taylor click-clicked back, jumped over a hedge and hugged a 101st G.I.-"the finest, most beautiful American soldier I've ever seen...
When Herter's report came, McElroy was in conference with the Joint Chiefs. The Army's Maxwell Taylor arose, asked McElroy crisply: "May I use your phone?" Permission granted, Taylor snapped out orders for the joist Airborne Division at Fort Campbell, Ky. to alert two companies. Equipment: "Packet A" -i.e., antiriot weapons, such as billy clubs and tear...
...World War II outfit-turned out with a roar to show off their skills. The high point of the day was the firing of an Honest John rocket, which set off a simulated atomic blast. The rocket launcher, however, was borrowed; a fact which symptomized one of the joist's current ills. It has yet to get much of its equipment...
...your Aug. 2 story, "How to Live to 100": Please be informed of the remark made to the press last April 6 by Mrs. Athalie Neuvelle of Angouleme, France, who, on her joist birthday, declared: "I've always preferred cognac to doctors...
Near Berchtesgaden is a little Bavarian village named Unterstein whose normal preoccupations are tourists and farming. Today Unterstein is an art center. In a whitewashed building, once a rest center for German railway workers, the American joist Airborne Division has put on display Hermann Goring's fabulous $200,000,000 collection of art works, the crème de la crème of the loot of Europe...