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...afternoon last week, while the lazy Washington sunshine lay thick as honey, two of the most important citizens in the U.S. sat on a park bench in Lafayette Square, across the street from the White House. Pigeons strutted along the paths, inspecting the ruins of peanuts; sweaty tourists, slung with cameras, pounded past the corroded, green bronze of Andrew Jackson on a hobbyhorse, surrounded by toy cannons...
...drinking water, checked its chlorinated product in test tubes. Off in the woods camoufleurs practiced hiding barracks buildings under false roofs, pine boughs, strips of brown flannel. Elsewhere on Belvoir's rolling, wooded 10,000 acres, Engineers practiced bridging ditches for infantry. Marching along the roads with rifles slung, they passed experimental pillboxes, saw evidences of other Engineers' work. The pillboxes were scarred, blackened and upended, by grenades, flamethrower and demolition explosives. Like other landmarks at Belvoir, the pillboxes tell the marching men that an Engineer never knows what he'll have to do next...
...Churchill, in company with U.S. Ambassador Winant, visited heavily bombed Swansea, a docker chided him for not carrying his gas mask. Churchill replied that it was in the car. "That's not the point, sir," said the man. "You should be carrying it." Churchill sent for the mask, slung it over his shoulder, said: "I shall carry it from...
...next winter she returned, debarked with Pia sleeping in a fur-lined papoose bag slung over her shoulder. This time people learned she is so sensitive she blushes and buries her face in her hands when she blows a line. Before the camera she becomes so intense her stomach often rumbles nervously. Currently occupied as the saloon tart in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, she reports: "It's a nice change. You know, in Hollywood it's like being in a cage; they thrust the parts through the bars, and you take what they give...
...tried to cork up, is no single bombable pathway like the Burma Road. Instead, machinery, materiel and munitions are landed from junks or freighters on beaches at minor ports anywhere along the coast in small shipments, proceed inland through the countryside by a kind of osmosis, in carts or slung on bamboo poles between two coolies. Not until they are well away from the coast are supplies concentrated along the Hengyang (southern Hunan) Railroad that takes them upcountry...