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Decision: Retreat. The troop commander put off the first retirement for two more hours. His tired old-young face, lean as a shell splinter, mirrored his doubt, his brief hope that he could hold, and finally his resolve to save what he had left for another day. He made that decision only after an infantryman from the fragile line near the town burst into the C.P. His face was bleeding slightly, his eyes were glazed. He could hardly talk until the troop medico had patched and soothed him. Then he said, still stammering, that German tanks had broken into...
...British Armies (Dempsey's Second and Crerar's Canadian First) stayed under the command of General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery. The boss of the American Twelfth Army Group: lean, spectacled Lieut. General Omar Nelson Bradley, who thus became responsible directly to Eisenhower for the operations of the First Army of Lieut. General Courtney H. Hodges, the fleet-footed Third Army of Lieut. General George S. Patton...
...phase of the Navy attack on nearby Saipan. The bombers appeared often after that. Hysterical Japs began cutting off the heads of natives who even looked at the sky. Then one day at last Tweed saw what he had been waiting for two and a half years-the lean, grey ships of the U.S. Navy...
...fewer calories, more vitamins and minerals. Good foods for oldsters: mild cheeses, milk, lean meat, butter, scrambled eggs, macaroni, well-cooked vegetables, stewed fruits, raw bananas. Blacklisted: hard-boiled eggs, raw or smoked meat, raw vegetables, rich cheeses. Dr. Gumpert advises breakfast in bed, a hearty lunch, light supper...
Noel F. (for Fairchild) Busch, 38, is a character who would seem wholly plausible to any reader of detective stories. New York City-born and Princeton-bred, he is tall, lean, dark, fastidious, athletic and adventurous, conceals a lively curiosity beneath an air of skeptical and somewhat bored amusement, and is gifted with a sardonic manner which is most effective when directed at waiters who neglect to have his food prepared without butter or his bacon fried to a sufficient crispness. He is also an accomplished journalist, and has been called the rich man's Ernie Pyle. Long...