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...spit-and-polish commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps. General Lemuel C. Shepherd Jr., sourly noted the uniformed posteriors of some of his men, ordered all Marine commanders to take "immediate steps" about "the trousers too short and too tight in the seat...
...Spit & Polish. In Dublin, Ga., Shoeshine Boy Charlie Williams was arrested for giving away a slug of moonshine whisky with every shine...
...different languages across the pages of some 750 newspapers. The strip's gentle spoofing of America's rags-to-riches-to-high society dream was translated into movies and radio shows, made a millionaire of Cartoonist McManus, who was regarded by his cronies as the spit & image of Jiggs...
Bader proved as extraordinary in prison camp as in the cockpit of a Spit. He immediately demanded that the Germans search for the leg snapped off in the crash. The Germans found it badly crushed, but repaired it expertly and handed it back to Bader. He gratefully strapped it on-and within days escaped. One night Bader simply knotted some bedsheets and climbed out of the hospital where he was recuperating. A waiting guide led him off, saying: "C'est bon. C'est magnifique!" But before he could move on to England he was betrayed to the Nazis...
...steering the Eisenhower program through the House. A minor revolt had been brewing against Halleck for some time, primarily because he had pushed House Republicans so hard on the tax and farm programs; the health insurance plan looked like only a relatively important bill and also a chance to spit in Charlie...