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...patrol from the 69th Division's 273rd Regiment, sent out to direct surrendering German soldiers and liberated Allied prisoners to the rear, rolled beyond its officially prescribed radius of action and found itself in Torgau. This patrol consisted of four Yanks in a jeep-Second Lieutenant William D. Robertson, a small, wiry officer from Los Angeles, and three enlisted...
Mercurochrome & Ink. The Russians on the other side of the Elbe- members of Marshal Konev's 58th Guards Division-sent up colored flares, the prearranged signal to designate friendly forces. Robertson had no flares. He took a bedsheet from a house, broke into a pharmacy, found mercurochrome and blue ink, made a crude representation of a U.S. flag and waved it from the tower of an ancient castle. The Russians, who had been tricked by Germans waving U.S. flags, sent over a few anti-tank shells...
Sporadic Shakespeare Festivals at Stratford go back as far as 1769. Since becoming an annual tradition, they have not only given the Bard perhaps his fullest hearing anywhere, but have taxed the talents of actors such as Sarah Bernhardt (as Hamlet), Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson, and Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree. And they have meant pageantry as well as playacting...
...Some would be representatives of the people: CCF Leader Major James Coldwell; Gordon Graydon, Tory leader in Parliament; Justice Minister (and Quebecker) Louis Stephen St. Laurent; Senator James H. King. A woman would be chosen, too. Some of the delegates would be experts-men like Hume Wrong and Norman Robertson, suave and able top-rankers in the External Affairs Department; men like Lester Bowles ("Mike") Pearson, diplomatically adroit Canadian Ambassador...
Lullaby. In Chicago, Pfc. Floyd Robertson, back home from the South Pacific, could not get to sleep until he curled up on a bench in the Brookfield Zoo, surrounded by shrieking parrots...