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Lock, Stock & Barrel. In Waterville, Me., Farmer Ray Gilbert & wife loaded a satchel, a hatbox, a few other small pieces, an iron bed, an automobile, a dog, nine head of cattle and themselves into a boxcar, and headed for California...
...date on Fala. He was about to move to her Manhattan apartment, where she feared he might feel a little cramped at first. Traveling was a problem; he was used to romping about the President's private car, would now have to travel in a dog satchel. The Manhattan salesman who sold her the satchel had some advice: Fala would not be so alarmed if she backed him into it. "I really think it would be simpler if I sat with him in the baggage car," wrote Mrs. Roosevelt...
Craft went along the crest, hurling grenades into foxholes and trenches. Japs popped up to fire at him; Craft pitched a hand grenade first. Japs tried to charge him with bayonets and spears. Craft shot them with his M-t rifle. He hurled a satchel charge into a cave. lt had a defective fuse and failed to explode. Craft walked up, retrieved the charge, fixed the fuse and hurled it in again. That time it sealed the cave...
...whole thing took about 15 minutes. In that time Craft fired four clips from his Mi, hurled 48 grenades and the satchel charge. He paused only once-to pick up a Japanese officer's sword because he knew "those guys of the 96th would have had the field stripped clear of souvenirs by the time I got back...
Early in the week, Baltimore began to sweat and shake with its annual seven-day fever over a horse race. Despite a change in jockeys and a jinx, the horse causing the highest rise in temperatures was Hoop Jr., a satchel-headed bay that won an easy six-length triumph at Louisville. There was no standout challenger until midweek, when Pavot turned in a sensational 1:59⅓workout (for a mile and three-sixteenths). By Saturday, 30,000 fans who shoved into Pimlico for the Preakness had just about forgotten that there were seven other entries...