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...farmhouses were stuffed with comforts, even luxuries. Near Frankfurt, one correspondent wonderingly noted the furnishings-paintings, silver and glassware, rich linens-then dipped into a bedroom closet: "I counted 87 dresses, three pairs of boots, 17 pairs of shoes. One whole drawer was jammed with tightly packed, unworn silk stockings...
Marriage Annulled. Fanny Taylor Baldwin Foote, 20, daughter of suave. Republican Congressman Joseph Clark Baldwin III from Manhattan's "silk stocking district"; and Wallace Turner Foote. 26, Manhattan socialite. Representative Baldwin, appearing for his daughter, testified that his son-in-law had never consummated the two-year-old marriage...
...Silk. On the roads below the roaring air fleet, guns, trucks and marching men were raising dust clouds. Farther ahead were smudges of black smoke where heavy bombers were still beating up the target area. Suddenly, out of the smoke, the now bridgeless Rhine appeared, flowing placidly. In the lead transports gum-chewing paratroops were tense. From the jumpmaster in each plane came a curt command: "Stand up!" Then, "Hook up! . . . Stand in the door! . . . Go!" They went tumbling out, 15 men in ten seconds...
...William M. ("Bud") Miley, commander of the 17th Airborne, taking his outfit into combat for the first time, and Major General Matthew Bunker Ridgway, veteran airborne fighter and commander of the Airborne Army's XVIII Corps. They had led their troops across the enemy barrier on bridges of silk...
...both his arms tattooed : a woman on the right, and an unsheathed sword on the left, with the legend, "Death before Dishonor." Back in Raritan, his mother was surprised one day when she got a beautiful black silk kimono from a Filipino girl. Mrs. Basilone already had two daughters-in-law and she now thought she would soon have a third...