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...auxiliary sloop Linda was short and squat and broad of beam, and neither spic nor span as she cut a bow wave through Miami's gilt-edged Biscayne Bay last week. Nonetheless, she was a proud ship. She had borne 18 Estonians, storm-tossed on the dirty seas of Europe's politics, across an equally turbulent ocean to haven in a free land. There was a not-so-proud moment when the Linda ran aground off Quarantine, and hung there high & dry until the tide refloated her. Soon she was tied up in a nest with two sister...
...Rural Route 3. At 51, Franklin Anderson is lean and hard, chocolate-browned by the sun and wind. His farm is his pride, and rightly. He has no debts; his house, unlike the typical Kansas brown frame, is a cheery, red-roofed, red-shuttered white stucco behind a spic-&-span white picket fence. Frank Anderson is a successful...
This week in Hartford, Conn., the first national championship since 1942 was fought out on the spic-&-span, allwood courts of the Hartford Golf Club. Defending Champion Charlie Brinton, 26, is a Philadelphian, and an ex-G.I. So is his No. 1 rival, lanky Hunter Lott, 31. (Philadelphia, where squash racquets got its start in the U.S., is still the game's top center.) Both came through the prelims easily, clashed in the finals. Lott won the first game, but then began to tire. Charlie Brinton still had his old mixture of low killers and tantalizing drop shots...
...Word of Farewell. Soon from the shelter strutted eight spic-&-span staff officers, one a Heidelberg alumnus with dueling scars on his face; 400 German soldiers and 30-odd U.S. captives followed them. Colonel Wilck asked for and received permission to address a Word of farewell to his men. Said he: "Dear German soldiers, I am speaking to you at a painful moment. ... I saw that further fighting was useless. ... At this time I have to remind you that you are still German soldiers. Please behave as such. I also wish you the best of health in your future travels...
...roadside and digs into a can of K rations-he does not like to cause a flurry of deference to his stars by taking lunch at some command post. But, back at his headquarters, the General insists that the staff officers who dine with him appear in spic-&-span uniforms. When he enters the mess his officers hop to attention and hold it until he nods them at ease. He dresses immaculately, but detests flashy uniforms, refers to service and decorations ribbons as "brag rags." But he wears his own on formal occasions, because that is proper military behavior...