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...question whether they can "believe the reports and statements of our leaders ... in this war." The people did not shout for General Patton's scalp. There were editorial shouts and much dinner-table clamor-and humorists in the Army's monstrous Pentagon Building in Washington sang: "Pistol Packing Patton Laid that Private Down." But PM's honest editor John P. Lewis admitted that his mail was running almost 5-to-1 against the paper's high-blood-pressure cry for a court-martial. And from Mishawaka, Ind., Casketmaker Herman F. Kuhl, father of one of Patton...
Mood Music. In Los Angeles, J. A. Halcomb frightened away an armed bandit by suddenly bursting into song with: "Lay that pistol down...
...Zurich newspaper Die Tat (variously translatable as "The Act" or "The Fact") printed the fanciest tale of many a long week. Its gist: Adolf Hitler, looking down the pistol barrel of defeat, would neither surrender, die in battle, nor kill himself. Instead, he would gather a picked staff of Nazi Party chieftains. Wehrmacht generals and technical geniuses, then lead them in a giant submarine flotilla to Japan. There he would establish his German Government in Exile, boost Nipponese production to undreamed-of levels, and string out the war a few more years.* In due time, if all went well...
...guns swept the sub's deck. The destroyer leaped forward to ram, went partly over, her bow straddling the U-boat's forward deck. There she stuck. For ten feverish minutes the Borie poured metal from her 4-in. guns, her tommy guns, shotguns and pistols at the Nazis and their sub's steel sides. One signalman banged away with a harmless Very flare pistol. A gun captain hurled empty shell casings at the sub, knocked a Nazi overboard...
...last pass in the season's strangest game was incomplete. The pistol shot sounded and the game was over. Score: 26-to-26. Ohio State and Illinois trotted toward their dressing rooms, and 36,331 spectators drifted from the stands...