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Turning the little knobs on her gun predictor for the first time in real action, 18-year-old Private Nora Caveney matched up the pointers, cried: "On target." As the guns spat, came the high whine of German bombs, a crash. A hot, jagged bomb splinter ripped through the sandbags and struck Nora Caveney in the chest. Another girl jumped into her place; another treble cry went up: "On target...
...curtain raisers. The Commission's Liberty shipbuilding soon got under way. First to be delivered: the Patrick Henry from the Bethlehem-Fairfield yard in Baltimore. An endless brood of Liberty ships, unbeautiful but worthy, began to plop into the waters. The fabulous Henry J. Kaiser (dams, concrete, magnesium) spat on his hands, went to work at Portland, Ore. Under Kaiser's son, Edgar, operating 24 hours a day, seven days a week, the Oregon Shipbuilding Corp. yards were launching two ships a week by February 1942. By the middle of March the yard had launched 20, delivered nine...
...evangelist. He warned his colleagues that passage of the bill would mean "religious suicide for Mississippi"; that "the downfall of every nation so far has been due to two things-first, desecration of the Holy Sabbath, and second, loss of the virtue of its womanhood." Members spat rich brown streams of tobacco juice at the shiny brass spittoons. Senator Hull warmed up. He had been summoned, he said, "to come at once" to the home of a friend 80 miles away. He "raced" there in his automobile to discover that his friend's daughter-"a beautiful young woman...
...step. "It doesn't much matter," said Mussolini. But not long after, periods of depression engulfed him. By last week he was surly, as likely to fly into tantrums as he was when Angelica Balabanoff found him sleeping under bridges in Switzerland; when Rachele Guidi shuddered as he spat at priests. A mockery of the man he might have been, Mussolini could well turn to reading the ancients. In the quiet of his study he might still forget the gnawing present in reading Virgil's silver lines...
Enrico Caruso, 38-year-old son of the late, great tenor, got into a spat with a woman bus passenger in Chicago, wound up in court charged with disorderly conduct. The woman said straphanging Enrico refused to let her squeeze by him, stamped on her foot, slapped her. Enrico said she shoved him, called him a beetle. He apologized in court; the case was dismissed...