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...church's dome started burning. Elderly Fireman Thompson scrambled nimbly up an iron ladder to the dome, picked up a hot bomb, hurled it to the ground. Losing his balance, he tumbled down the dome, got wedged against a parapet. Freeing himself, he spotted another incendiary the vestry roof, walked atop a twelve-foot wall carrying a water bucket. The bomb responded to the water treatment by exploding and hurling Fireman Thompson to the concrete pavement below...
General Philip Neame, an engineering expert famous for a day at Neuve Chapelle in 1914 when he stood bolt upright on a parapet for 20 minutes, lighting the fuses of improvised jam-tin bombs with a cigaret and lobbing the bombs at the Germans. Also captured last week after a tank fight at the outpost of el-Mechili were Major General Michael Denham Gambier-Parry, tank strategist, and 2,000 men. Also captured in Libya, apparently while flying out to Egypt from Britain via Gibraltar and Malta, was Major General Adrian Carton de Wiart, who unhappily commanded British troops...
...Montemezzi coached her for a Metropolitan audition, and she vowed that some day she would sing in his opera. Well she sang it, but she postured in stained-glass attitudes, walked in the gait of a woman trying out an unfamiliar wooden leg. Singing at her lover from a parapet, Soprano Moore pounded the scenery like a Bronx housewife pounding a counter, raised a cloud of dust that cruelly dispelled the mood of the moment. Obviously the Metropolitan needed not only more conductors like Guest Montemezzi, but also a good duster-wielding housekeeper...
...around Miller's shoulder, tell him "Maybe I shall be a reporter again, too." Webb Miller made a warm friend of Spain's Primo de Rivera during the Riff campaign, later wangled direct news items from him, toll prepaid. Astride a sandbagged parapet, he flashed the first news of Italy's advance on Ethiopia, got the word to Rome ahead of the official Italian story...
...Joseph Stalin is not given to oratorical pyrotechnics. Only two or three times a year does he appear on the parapet of Lenin's tomb in Red Square, wearing his flat military cap, his military tunic, his high Russian boots. He attends Party meetings but rarely public gatherings. He has made only one radio speech and is not likely to make many more. His thick Georgian accent sounds strange to Russia...