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Dreamer. In Ann Arbor, Mich., hospital attendants did what they could for Private Patrick Pisula, who had imitated "the man in the circus" at a bar, taken a couple of bites out of a glass, tried hard to swallow a knife...
Quality Party. Like Commando troops, Rangers learn to skin up high trees, descend 200-ft. precipices on ropes, study the trade of the knife man and the strangler. To the newsmen visitors the training seemed to demand thugs and gangsters; but the British, who have tried that type, know better. "They never pan out-mostly yellow," said a Commando instructor...
...medieval-looking fourth-floor workshop. There he whittles to perfection the paper-thin, cigaret-shaped reeds on whose shaping and adjustment oboe tone heavily depends. A flawed reed can make even the best playing sound like a tin horn. Tabuteau spends hours every day scraping away with a razorlike knife...
...from running mucus. . . . There was pain in . . . the stooped shoulders straining downwards away from the pack . . . in the bent spine, in the small of the back. . . . Pain in the strung thighs, red pain in the chafed buttocks . . . in the gooseflesh skin of the thigh where a holster, or a knife in ihe trouser pocket, rubbed with the polish of dripping water." It was still dark when they stopped to rest at "a heap of stones . . . shown on the map as a farmhouse . . . many miles from any road or track...
...dive-bomber, said: "Here's where I get one for my brother." He did. Captain Sidney Combs, of Lexington, Ky., took cover behind a tank until a land mine exploded under it and injured the crew. Combs amputated the tank captain's leg with a knife, crawled into a foxhole and directed the artillery fire. Pounded by Stukas, the U.S. force pressed on, reached its objective, destroyed enemy installations and withdrew...