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...velvet-padded stool on the green grass beside the fence of the half-ruined Royal Palace in Belgrade, a Nazi officer-artist sat sketching the toppled dome of one of the Palace wings. New York Times's Correspondent Ray Brock, back on his old beat, strolled up and asked what the drawing was for. The officer told him it was for the German picture magazine Signal. Then, to Correspondent Brock's surprise, the officer suddenly became very voluble...
...gear was rigged and the main engines urged to nine-knot speed. For 700 miles 26-year-old Second Officer Arthur Hawkins guided her eastward, by the moon and stars and a page torn from an old school atlas. Greaser Joe Boyle, his ribs broken, was propped on a stool in the engine room to check the gauges. But after two days he collapsed, died overnight in his bunk...
...loves pomp and patriotism even more than pictures. Last fall he hung the stars and stripes outside his studio office, tacked up a sign proclaiming it a Marine recruiting station. After Thursday-night drills with his outfit, Woody would stride into Chasen's restaurant and climb aboard a stool in full regimental regalia. Hollywood said good-by to Woody at a formal dinner for 500 on an M. G. M. sound stage climaxed by a hectic scuffle for the check by the studio, the Screen Directors Guild, Producer Edward Mannix...
...referee had hit one fighter with a stool. In the corner, Willkie's handlers wept (some of them crocodile tears) or swore. But the bearlike man from Indiana wouldn't admit he was licked. Even veteran newshawks begged him to cut down on his extraordinarily grueling speaking schedule. Smiling, he upped the pace, talked more, louder, longer. More important, he began to say things that...
...titles (featherweight, lightweight, welterweight) within eleven months, he plopped Jenkins to the floor once in the fourth round, twice in the fifth, three times in the sixth. Just before the bell rang for the beginning of the seventh round, the "best lightweight since Benny Leonard" collapsed, toppled off his stool...