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Sergeant Arnold A. Petry of Long Beach, N.Y. knows his Germans. He fights them armed with two automatic pistols and a Thompson submachine gun. When his platoon was surrounded in an apple orchard west of Tettingen, Germany, the sergeant growled to his men: "We won't surrender...
...Sergeant Petry knew what he was fighting for-and against. Six years ago, before his family escaped to America, he had been a German, citizen, a member of the Hitler Youth. When an American advance swept through the orchard, the sergeant and his men were still there, still fighting...
Virtually in retirement for the last four years, he now tramps the orchard which his modern farming ideas have turned from scrubland to a paradise of fruitfulness, or sits in his chair, back to the big log fire, white cat perched on the arm while his wife and longtime secretary (whom he married 14 months ago) works at his correspondence...
...entertainment is very great. The audience is very well behaved. Curtains usually go up exactly on time, and playgoers not in their seats must wait for the first curtain before being let in. Intermissions are interminable. I was able to read the whole of each act of The Cherry Orchard in the intermission preceding...
...Merely Phraseology." Next night Illinois' able Representative Everett M. Dirksen spoke in Old Orchard Beach, Me. He too had been offered a Manhattan factory-made speech, which arrived just two hours before he was to broadcast. The speech accused Franklin Roosevelt of seeking the Presidency "under false pretenses," and said that Governor Dewey would make a speech this week "and you'd better listen to what he has to say." As Dirksen sat on the platform waiting to speak, he hurriedly crossed out the strongest sections. Two days later his speech was the subject of debate in Congress...