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...newcomer gets a false sense of security. Hearing none of the usual din of battle, he comes jeeping along, admiring the scenery, when-ping-a sniper's bullet shatters his daydreams. . . . Japanese bullets and knee mortars can kill just as surely as von Mackensen's railway guns at Anzio...
...Zolotow writes: "The bags under his eyes come to look like fugitives from a hammock factory," the sentence is pencil-ringed and Funnyman Allen retorts in the margin: "Come now. My bags aren't that big. My eyes just look as though they are peeping over two dirty ping-pong balls." When Zolotow reports: "Allen got his first break when he played the lead in Polly, a 1928 musical," Allen corrects him testily: "In 1921 I toured with Nora Bayes and Lew Fields. In 1922 I played in The Passing Show at the Winter Garden...
...last PBH freshman reception in March, dancing, ping pong, and pool were on the program. Then, 60-odd Harvard freshmen were introduced to the 16 March entrants at Radcliffe...
...airstrip at dusk. I had been digging a foxhole for the night when one man shouted: "There is a Jap under those logs!" The command post security officer was dubious, but he handed concussion grenades to a man and told him to blast the Jap out. Then a sharp ping of the Jap bullet whistled out of the hole and from under the logs a skinny little fellow-not much over 5 ft. tall -jumped out waving a bayonet...