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...southern maneuvers. The following spring he snorted off to California to organize the Desert Training Center. In the 120° heat he whipped a desert fighting force into shape. Most of the men he trained followed him overseas. He was assigned to seize Casablanca, which he did after four rip-roaring days and many blunders (not necessarily his own). At the end he strode into the headquarters of Admiral Michelier with a pair of pearl-handled .45-caliber pistols strapped to his legs and a tommy gun under one arm. So impressed was the Sultan of Morocco that he presented...
...averages more than 60 concerts a year on tours throughout the U.S. Her homely Midwestern habits have changed but little. Indestructibly good-natured, she has never been known to have a fit of temperament. Baseball has been forbidden her, because she always yells herself hoarse. But she goes to rip-roaring Western movies and listens to the Lone Ranger on the radio. Her husband is a onetime stockbroker, now her personal manager...
That's why the American Telephone and Telegraph Company sent a man around to Kirkland House the other day with an ultimatum. "One more salted penny," said he, "and we rip out every pay phone in the House." The Deacons still don't quite see why A. T. and T. should be worried about a measly $.04. And, after all, it isn't a plain penny. It's got salt...
...pages Lanny has played Master of Ceremonies for a mammoth floorshow version of 20th-century history, and in the fourth he is still one of the most adroit and likable quick-change artists in the profession. He can beard Basil Zaharoff with tips from The Beyond, josh Hermann Goring, rip off a bit of Beethoven for "Adi" Schicklgruber, rescue a beautiful Social Democrat from "Naziland" and an intrepid young Briton from the Spanish Fascists. He can carom all over "this old continent" (Europe) in his high-powered roadster, keeping dates with the major crises of his time, without...
...slowly rising waves, and the gay, milling mob mounting the crest of the stone-rimmed hill. You took us to the gods that were friends, with more yes and less no. The four of us, you with us, Inch, held fast to the heritages the banal would storm and rip open...