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...raid of May loth ... I had a seat in the stalls, having arranged to spend that night on St. Paul's Cathedral. St. Paul's has already had two direct hits, but Wren's structure is standing up to it amazingly well (if you go back stage in the cathedral you notice with what extraordinary ingenuity and thoroughness-and solidity-the whole thing is put together). ... It was a night of a full moon which half the time was lost in fire clouds, and from midnight till dawn H.E. bombs and incendiaries fell all over the City...
...went to Cuba with the Negro loth Cavalry. Lieut. Pershing was 38. He was almost 40 when he was sent to the Philippines and won his captaincy. He was a tough man and a hard disciplinarian, though he had a sentimental affection for his calling. He wrote to his classmates: "Drink deep thoughts of love and affection for us all!" In 1905 he married the daughter of the Hon. Francis E. Warren, Senator from Wyoming...
...otherwise. He made the A.E.F. drill. He insisted that infantrymen be taught to shoot, though the French clucked. The French depended on hand grenades. He was more than ever the spit-&-polish disciplinarian. To his officers "Black Jack" (the nickname he picked up when he was with the Negro loth) was God. To the enlisted men he was both God and devil. Some remembered him striding across a muddy field of France with his face hard and his uniform immaculate. Others remembered him as "that sonuvabitch [who] roared past our column in his big staff car, spattering every...
Unlike most U.S. magazine publishers, many newspaper owners have been loth to ration their advertising or circulation; some of them have taken all they can get. Far from reducing newsprint consumption, a few U.S. metropolitan dailies have asked for (and gotten) extra paper to take care of increased business. In typical, war-swollen Seattle, circulations have soared-the Times is up 30% over a year ago-and so has advertising linage. On scores of papers the want-ad sections have blossomed into big cash-takers, as the manpower shortage forced employers to plead for "Girls...
...several days, armored units made a great show of preparing a break-through to the south of that sector, until the enemy placed his best armor, the remnants of his loth and 21st Panzers, oppo site the diversion...