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...escarpment, 3,000 yds. long, 600 ft. high, including a 300-ft. cliff, perhaps half of the 15,000 or so surviving Japanese were dug in. They had scores of fortified caves, from each of which they would have to be burned by flamethrowers or blasted by grenades and satchel charges...
...properties in France (after the Baron had emplaned with his family for the U.S., where he has since made his home). But the Baron probably scarcely felt the pinch. He had so much left that the $1,000,000 worth of jewels he had brought with him in a satchel were referred to as a "bagatelle...
...came Lieut. Colonel John G. Cassidy's battalion. In four days of bitter fighting Major General John R. Hodge's XXIV Corps troops won and lost the ridgetop three times. The Japanese met them coming up, popping out of caves and old tombs to hurl grenades and satchel charges-heavy explosives, carried on a handle like a satchel, and usually used to blast fortifications. Japanese artillery fire pounded them while they were on top. Then Japanese infantry charged furiously with fixed bayonets and ousted them...
...picture starts off with a bang it never betters when emery-voiced, satchel-eyed Fred Allen takes charge of the screen and gives the interminable screen credits the kicking-around they have so long been begging for: "This is Mr. Skirball's father-in-law," he explains of Director Richard Wallace, remarking also that Producer Skirball gets his name up there twice. When that is over you enter a charade-like world which is in many respects more rational than the one it ribs, and any amount more entertaining-a world in which children are hideously overeducated and essentially...
This was only a mail address, but it led the FBI on to Carl Krepper on James Street in Newark. The man with the satchel was patiently shadowed for 30 months. Then the FBI pounced...