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...this was a music teacher's dream, for Hardie Robbins last week it was not a dream at all, but complete, three-dimensional, here-&-now reality. Private Hardie Robbins had lain last Christmas in Washington's Walter Reed General Hospital, his hands healing from the fearful burns they suffered when the Army transport U.S.S. Bliss was torpedoed off North Africa. The President's wife, on one of her numerous hospital rounds, had stopped to chat with him. What would he like best to do, she asked, once his bandages came off? Hardie Robbins guessed he would rather...
Tantrum. In Manhattan, a policeman complained that when he told Peddler Raymond Vasquez to move along he had thrown himself on the ground and lain there screaming and kicking...
...harbor of Toulon, spread out beneath the dark houses of the sleeping city, 62 vessels of the French Navy-battleships, cruisers, destroyers, submarines and France's only seaplane carrier-were lying quietly at anchor or tied up at their piers, as they had lain for nearly two and a half years since the summer when France fell. At the city's gates soldiers of the French Army stood on guard. To the east, the sky was paling with the first light of dawn...
...Buffalo-to-Philadelphia Keystone Pipe Line has lain idle since spring for lack of oil at the lakehead. Lost to the East is the line's minimum 16,000-barrel daily capacity...
They saw it at its best when the enemy made his first attempt in eleven months to bomb Chungking, which had lain in its dugouts, all but defenseless, through 142 destructive raids between 1939 and 1941. It was the dusk of a balmy day when in fighter headquarters the radio began to peep and squawk. Chinese operators took the messages; they came from courageous Chinese watchers at secret radios deep...