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...right field, Franklin Roosevelt's Packard drove up a ramp. The President dismounted, stepped a few feet to a speaker's stand. It began to pour. The President took off his grey fedora, let the Navy cape drop from his shoulders. Standing in the rain in his grey sack suit, he spoke for five minutes. Said he: Bob Wagner "deserves well of mankind...
Voice of Freedom. MacArthur sat upright in the stern of the barge. When it grounded in shoal water, he walked down the ramp and waded ashore. He was wet to the midriff, but the sun glinted on the golden "scrambled eggs" on his strictly individualistic cap as he faced a microphone. To Filipinos his first words were the fulfillment of a promise: "This is the Voice of Freedom." That was how the last Corregidor radio programs began. Said Douglas MacArthur...
...hill toward Aachen. The engineers, watching from the bleachers of the ridge, saw the squeeze play fail: the rocking trolley blew up before it reached the town. Maybe it shook up a few Nazi machine gunners. Well, they had another. The second improved model exploded prematurely, destroying the launching ramp...
...ramp seized near Rouen was simply a pair of rails 200 feet long and mounted 12 feet apart on ties. The mayor of Rouen said that a high proportion of the robombs launched in that area had been wasted, that three out of four flopped in France without even reaching the Channel. No less than 26, he said, had exploded on one 40-acre French farm. Many firing crews were said to have been injured or killed at the launching installations. At Arras, Frenchmen said they had been offered 1,000 francs a day to help with the dangerous firing...
...Sunday the whereabouts of President Roosevelt was undisclosed, but the chances were that he was not at church. When he is home in Hyde Park the President usually attends service at St. James's Episcopal* Church, of which he has been senior warden since 1928. But the special ramp and awning (put up at Presidential expense) at a side door of St. Thomas' in Washington has not been used since Easter 1941. This is not entirely a matter of Presidential choice. The Secret Service sensibly holds that the President's life might be endangered if, during...