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...questions inseparable from the united, forward march of the great nations. ... I hope most earnestly and I believe with great conviction that the warrior statesman at the head of Russia will lead the Russian people-all the peoples of Russia*-through the years of storm and tempest into the sunlight of a broader and happier age for all, and that with him in this task will march the British Commonwealth of Nations and the mighty United States of America." Then the British warrior statesman climbed into his bomber, roared...
Under the warm June sunlight the rich Pennsylvania farmlands unrolled in a vision of wealth that staggered the triumphant, barefoot Army of Northern Virginia. The invasion was a picnic. It was a combination of all the entertainments of rustic America-a horse race, a chicken fry (with requisitioned chickens), a parade-and the prizes were everything that the nation could offer...
Engineer Frank Blair died from burns-he had landed safely after his leap, only to be scalded by the bursting boiler. Twenty-eight other men, 26 of them soldiers, also died, and 40 were taken to hospitals. As next morning's sunlight cleared the fog, thousands of people gathered near the tracks, and a man with a tinkling bell on his automobile sold hundreds of Popsicles. Major W. J. Wegg, who had commanded the Air Forces group on the train, went to the Terre Haute House and wearily ordered a bottle of Budweiser. As he lifted it he said...
While we are on the subject of basking in the sunlight of the professorial smile, Don Nelson, by virtue of having a very famous uncle (not the WPB chief) is the fairhaired...
Crerar's Mind. Last Aug. 7, the eve of the Canadians' push on Falaise, in a sunlight-flooded barn, correspondents in France took the measure of Henry Crerar as a soldier. Wearing freshly shined boots and talking like a military-school professor, Crerar gave them a briefing which turned out to be a brilliant, complex, minutely detailed analysis of the coming operation. Said Crerar: "Tomorrow . . . may be another historic day in the military annals of Canada." The newsmen agreed that his briefing was an extraordinary performance. "That man," said one, "has a department store mind on a Napoleonic...