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...What Junk?" In Hitler Directs His War, Bryn Mawr History Professor Felix Gilbert has edited the fragments with main attention to the temper and character of Adolf Hitler, reduced many technical and tactical sessions to synopsis treatment in an appendix. One of the first things that struck Editor Gilbert was the way Hitler's personality dominated the conferences-and the vindictive "meanness" of the man's mind. One example: his treatment of hard-pressed Field Marshal von Kluge, whom he called back from the Eastern Front on July 26, 1943, to inform him that some of his Panzer...
When finally flushed from cover, 880 turned out to be a genial old junk dealer, a former Navy man who preferred printing up funds to collecting his pension because he felt he was saving the government money. Eight-eighty ran off his dollar bills on ordinary bond paper, using a tiny hand press which he affectionately called his rich Cousin Henry. He tried to make sure that no storekeeper would be stuck with his handmade currency more than once, and he spent the money, mainly, to entertain an adoring army of neighborhood children. By the time he was convicted...
...looked at the brown paper soap flakes box squatting sullenly in the middle of the floor, with a pyramid of books heaped up over its rim. Three years worth of junk, thought Vag, just taking up space. This year he would start differently. Vag seized the box with one hand and heaved the books out onto the rung...
...Junk," muttered Vag; he reached in the pile. Five Kinds of Writing. That certainly wasn't worth keeping. Vag opened the book at random. "Why I am a Marxist" it said. He shuddered and threw it beside the math tables. Family and Community in Ireland. The book joined the others behind the laundry case. Essays on Sociological Theory. The dust was coming up from the laundry box now as the books hit. Vag worked his way to the bottom of the box, watched a copy of Plato's "Republic" thud into the pile, and then stood up. That had been...
...Surplus Property Commission last October. But two other witnesses slightly changed the formidable picture of Mrs. Planas as a one-woman arsenal. Said her son Alberto: "My mother is a sick woman. There's really nothing in our depots that the army can use-just a pile of junk." Said her daughter Carmen: "Mother's ... 1,000 tanks are fictitious...