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Cautiously, under a butter-colored moon, U.S. 3rd Division patrols reconnoitered the last eight miles to Messina. The stony Sicilian landscape flashed now & then with snipers' fire. The road was edged with the menace of mines, booby traps and demolition chasms. But clearly the stubborn, skillful, beaten enemy had...
The Author. Novelist Marquand resembles Jeffrey Wilson more than the protagonists of his three New England novels. Born in 1893, he grew up in Newburyport, Mass., went to Harvard, worked on the Boston Transcript, served in France during World War I. After a year on the New York Tribune, he...
Charles Dickens' great-grandson, British Naval Lieut. Peter Gerald Charles, got the D.S.O. for skillful and daring attacks "in enemy coastal waters."
300,000 Notes. The job often starts while the show is in rehearsal and the cast is already learning its lines and tunes. The orchestrators study the composer's sketches, watch the numbers being built up in rehearsal, make their musical plans accordingly. For example, a singer like Ethel...
On Detroit's tree-shaded Grand Boulevard stands Henry Ford's own hospital, famed for its skillful surgeons, its spacious research laboratories. But when ailing Edsel Bryant Ford stepped through its doors seven weeks ago with his quick, springy stride, nothing could be done for him. So, at...