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...School. He graduated in the top 10% of his class, soon went to Europe as operations officer for the 104th Infantry ("Timberwolf") Division, wrote the operations orders that carried the 104th through to the Rhine and into Germany. He won his medals-Legion of Honor, Croix de guerre with palm, Bronze Star with cluster. At war's end, when the 104th linked up with the Soviet forces in Germany, Lieut. Colonel Hoegh was in a group that flew behind the Russian lines in a Piper Cub to establish liaison with Marshal Konev's advancing army...
People often thought Charlie Merrill spent his wealth as fast as he made it. He cut a wide swath through international café society, loved good food and champagne. He owned three luxurious homes (in Palm Beach, Fla., Southampton, L.I., and Barbados), and embarked on an equal number of marriages...
...growing drama of the boy's unhappy betrothal to a human girl is developed through the dancers' fingertips-pointing at the eyes to indicate tears, at the forehead for mystification, at the ceiling to swear by all that's holy, etc. There are magic veils, palm reading and plots until the sylph's little wings drop off and, faltering as if blind, she dies. When, amid all this fabulizing, they get a chance to dance, the Danes are light on their toes-as if the stage were covered with foam rubber-and their movements are graceful...
...planes* during World War I, collected a chestful of medals (including Britain's Victoria Cross. France's Croix de guerre), later became an oil-firm vice president, was named honorary air marshal of Canada while recruiting flyers during World War II; of cirrhosis of the liver; in Palm Beach, Fla. Billy Bishop scorned stunt flying, grimly dived his single-seat Nieuport Scout to within 50 yards of his prey before firing a short, deadly burst from his Lewis gun. He shot down 47 planes in his first five months of battle, made a hero's tour...
...house a radio and color TV station, a movie sound stage, a theater in the round, a combination ice rink and supper club, an 1,800-seat auditorium. When asked how he is going to make the aluminum dome look Polynesian, Kaiser replied confidently: "I'll stick living palm trees through the roof...