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...Regiment in Madrid had the duty of packing off to Valencia the art treasures of the capital (TIME, Feb. 1, 1937).* Public statues, including Madrid's favorite, Cybele, the goddess with the civic crown who has long driven a marble chariot opposite the post office, were sealed in sandbag pyramids...
...felt guilty for wanting to use somebody's forlorn pet for a sandbag, but I was so frightened that the feeling of shame soon passed away...
...sergeant greets his rank of recruits as ''Soldiers of Free Spain," shakes each by the hand, calls him ''Comrade!" When the Loyalist general is finally brought back, the treacherous Rebels manage to shoot him anyway. With their leader dead, the milicianos rush to their sandbag wall and laugh in hysterical, heroic rage as they pump bullets over the barricade. Purpose of the first performance of Spain Laughs was to see if a hand-picked audience would give enough encouragement to justify a Broadway opening. The partisan audience gave encouragement in plenty, though its drama-conscious members...
...wavered fearfully from the Chinese airport. Enormously strengthened by the arrival of 30,000 fresh troops the day before, the Chinese garrison was nonetheless unprepared for the attack. Earlier in the day, the Mayor said he had been assured that no offensive would be launched. To avoid possible misunderstanding, sandbag barricades, erected at strategic points within the city, had been taken down. Under cover of the bombardment, Japanese blue-jackets landed five miles outside the city and engaged in sporadic hostilities with detachments of the Chinese garrison. Meanwhile, the Drum watchtower, which has warned Nanking citizens of danger since...
...cursing pilot struggled to stabilize the ship. At length the officer signalled to Osborne to cut himself loose and descend by the emergency 'chute strapped upon his chest. But Private Osborne had no knife. Then another plane flew up, maneuvered above Osborne while an officer lowered a sandbag to which a knife was tied. After a half-hour's effort, Osborne caught the knife, freed himself, opened his second 'chute and landed safely in a corn field. There his irate instructors found him, angrily informed him he must repeat the parachute course...