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Baseball fans who hope to see much baseball played in Pride of the Yankees will be disappointed. Babe Ruth is there, playing himself with fidelity and considerable humor; so are Yankees Bill Dickey, Bob Meusel, Mark Koenig. But baseball is only incidental. The hero does not hit a home run and win the girl. He is just a hardworking, unassuming, highly talented professional. The picture tells the model story of his model life in the special world of professional ballplayers...
...released British prisoner climbed in the desert heat with a note in his hand. The hot place he had reached was Bir Hachéim, a four-mile-square, mine-necklaced plateau in the Libyan desert. The note was addressed to General Pierre Koenig, the Free French commander of this southern anchor of the Allied line. It was from Field Marshal Erwin Rommel and it said: Surrender, or suffer the consequences...
...Pierre Koenig, tall, blue-eyed, blond, German of name and physique but French as only a Foreign Legionnaire can be, read the note. The smile he habitually wears faded, and his officers saw one of his brief furies mount. He scrawled on the note a single French word: Merde (obscenity). Then he called for a German prisoner, gave him the note and sent him out to find Rommel...
...Pierre Koenig and his 3,000 Parisians, Bretons, Moroccans and Hitler-hating Germans settled down to wait for the inevitable. It was inevitable that Field Marshal Rommel, having bypassed Bir Hachéim in the expectation that it would be a pushover, only to find it a stubborn thorn, would devote his full fury to the place. Every day for ten days there had been attacks by Italian troops, stiffened by a few Germans. Every day Koenig's band had thrown the attacks back with the old French favorite, the 75-mm. cannon...
There was reason. After 13 days, Bir Hachéim, the hot place, Pierre Koenig's key post, had fallen...