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...Florence and sleet at Milan. Though the Italians got a special dispensation to exceed the rally's maximum 65-kilometer-per-hour average speed (because of time lost at the Simplon Tunnel), they still had trouble with blinding snow along the French stretch from Le Puy to Valence...
...Channel by ferry from Folkestone, had better weather luck. British Motorcar Manufacturer Sidney Allard, along with Veteran Driver Guy Warburton, made good enough time to stop for two warm meals: steak and chips at Liège, bacon and eggs at Amsterdam. They hit the swirling snow between Le Puy and Valence soon after plows had cleared the way. They also passed a stalled Allard driven by Allard's wife Eleanor, in the race with her two sisters. Shouted Allard: "Are you all right?" Shouted Mrs. Allard: "No!" This bit of information prompted Allard to step...
...hundreds of aircraft flying from the big, fait carriers of Admiral Halsey's Third Fleet. He peered through red-rimmed eyes as the air groups were flown off and formed up at dawn, hundreds of miles east of their targets. His chief of staff, Rear Admiral Wilder Du Puy Baker, is a grandfather, but McCain addressed him as "Son." He addressed everybody on the flag bridge as "Son." One of them was Commander John S. ("Jimmy") Thach, inventor of the Navy fighter plane technique for Jap-killing, known as the "Thach weave...
Last week the Vichy area suffered from its worst flood since 1907. Angrily swollen, the Allier River inundated parts of Vichy itself, nearby Puy-de-Dóme, and neighboring farmlands...
When Vichy finally granted a second visa, there was no gasoline for the drive from St. Gérand-le-Puy to Vichy. Defying police regulations, Giorgio Joyce bicycled to Vichy, begged every embassy and consulate for gasoline. Finally a bank clerk gave his last gallon of gas, which was enough to take the Joyces to the train...