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...Armored retook Saint-Vith, a town of bloody and gallant memory. North of there, the Germans still stood on Belgian soil in a small bend of the border. They were smacked by the famed 1st Infantry, the stout peg which had held down the north shoulder of Rundstedt's salient. The doughboys attacked at 4 a.m. in a heavy snowstorm, without artillery preparation, and gained two miles...
That was Rundstedt's first upset. The second was the heroic refusal of the 101st Airborne to be overrun at Bastogne. The Americans' northern peg held firm when a regiment of one of the overrun divisions refused to give ground and enabled First Army divisions to the north to wheel in on that flank...
...tall clipper ships crowding on sail on the China run, with silks and sandalwood and opium, gongs and the firebreath of dragons. In New York and Boston libraries he delved long in old tomes: Lawrence Kearny, Sailor Diplomat; The Clipper Ship Era; The Opium Trade; The Opium Clipper. Could Peg be softening up, seeking escape from the hateful present? Last week, in one of his last columns for Scripps-Howard, came the answer...
Pshaw. In Texas, a WASP, flying a ferry route, got so hot even at high altitude that she stripped to the waist, hung the garments on a peg, lost them to the wind, radioed Waco for help, was met at the field by a ground crew with averted eyes and a WAC bearing a shirt...
...There had been a long drought and the cedars along the highway were pale with dust blown from the cornfields of Talbot County, Wye Mills, Longwood. It was nighttime and our headlights laid a path along the narrow road which wound around the woods and farms. Easton-Harrison Street. Peg and the girls were standing on the sidewalk in the dim light which fell from the windows of the Red Star bus station...