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...learn in turn to sing lead, tenor and bass. By the time he is through the cycle, the G.I. has become an all-round barbershop expert, able to sound off, at the clearing of a throat, with any part of Old Man River or In the Evening by the Moonlight...
They traveled through a country of night hawks, deer, bears, panthers, wildcats, and hunted turkeys by moonlight. At St. Louis they drove across the prairie through flowering and fragrant shrubs, past orchards bending and breaking with loads of fruit, where boys rode by on calico ponies "hallowing & laughing." Around the houses were "fat Negro wenches, drying apples & peaches on boards under trees," and in the villages were strapping Indian squaws from the tribes famed for the beauty of their women. Irving thought the Indians were like strange, wild, magnificent prairie birds. They rode by in scarlet turbans with plumes...
Although it was nearly dark, we could see quite well, for the smoke had cleared, and the rain ceased and the British were using artificial moonlight: the reflection from searchlight beams directed onto the low-lying clouds immediately above us. The lighting effects were eerie, in the dusk of that winter evening-especially when unexpected bursts from the flamethrowers half-blinded you, and two houses and a dozen haystacks caught fire a hundred yards away...
With MacArthur's help, Annalee Jacoby made a hairbreadth escape from the Philippines. In bright moonlight the boat slipped through the minefields, past the Cavite shoreline where Jap artillery blazed. Beyond the bay she and her companions laid a tricky course to freedom-moved only by night, holed up during the day. ("There was always a tight feeling in our stomachs, and we sat on deck with our legs and arms crossed as well as our fingers".) She "filed her nails over and over again", twice almost to the quick-once when eight Jap warships steamed parallel to their...
...struggle was bitter (he once paraphrased John Randolph, saying that radio management reminded him "of a dead mackerel in the moonlight which both shines and stinks," and management replied in kind). The fight ended with a blockbuster which the Supreme Court dropped on the industry in 1943, ruling that FCC had the power to enforce its regulations on the radio industry. The sum of these regulations was the freeing of the 900-odd U.S. stations from total network domination (TIME...