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...northern Luzon a Japanese retreat was developing into something resembling a rout...
...Japanese rout grew, U.S. planes searched the roads and trails for the retreating enemy. One observation plane called for fire on a column in shiny American cars, stolen in Manila, and bamboo-hooded carabao carts, snatched from Igorot farmers. Wrote TIME Correspondent William Gray: "When I saw the area two days later, burned roadside huts were still smoking, the air was ripe with the stench of dead men and animals and souring spilled rice. A scattered pile...
Admiring Author Pinchon believes that but for Sickles, Chancellorsville would have been not a defeat, but a rout. He quotes Stines's History of the Army of the Potomac: "If Sickles had not brought up his command in time to strike Jackson's right and rear, there is no telling where [the] disaster might have ended. . . . His subsequent night attack against Jackson was one of the most brilliant actions in military history." But General Sickles' major achievement was his stand against Longstreet at Gettysburg. It also cost Sickles his right leg from the thigh down. His military...
Halled by all observers as the most significant event since prohibition, this angle is expected to draw a crowd of celebrities surpassing that of the Lampoon rout. Bill Cunningham, ace Herald sports reporter, wired his regrets and said that he could not come but would send his pet Yale man as a representative...
...Bacchic Rout. Toward 4 o'clock in the morning the rioting subsided. But the lull was illusory. By early afternoon of V-E day a bacchic rout of men, women and even children reeled down Barrington, Hollis and, Granville Streets smashing more windows and sacking more stores. Said one elderly woman: "I never had so much fun in my life...