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Farmer François Theron hates baboons. Some 1 ,000 of the big monkeys live on his sheep farm in South Africa's Cape province. Says he: "They'll rip off a sheep's leg for breakfast and leave the animal...
...Church of St. Stephen's, Walbrook, whose "columns, arches, spandrils and dome follow each other with the logic of a Euclidian theorem." Wren's great transept is buried in wreckage, and there is a jagged rip in the resetted dome...
Artillery bowled down the valley at 9 a.m., like a giant Rip van Winkle game of tenpins. At 10 it began raining, and the artillery fire halted. Lieut. Colonel Ashton Manhart said: "The poor damn doughboys get it again." The Divisional General at Colonel Manhart's command post said: "I don't know why this artillery lets up just because it's raining." The rain stopped and German artillery started at about noon. The German bursts, guided by observation from advantageous Nazi heights, poked with maddening accuracy into gulleys, behind haystacks, on to houses being used...
...Cinemactress Grable's histrionic legs are here shrouded in fancy skirts may sadden her admirers. But she makes up for that in one high-stepping number which has something of the shock value that might result from watching grandma, in the bloom of her youth, chuck an old rip under the chin with the toe-point of her slipper...
...Rip ho-How the drill sergeant pronounces "To the rear, march...