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Cogny next joined the underground: he led raids against Italian outposts and spied for the Free French. But Cogny was trapped by a Gestapo decoy less than a year later, and he was out of the war for good. The Gestapo beat him "rudely," as he put it, on seven...
In the red-painted cavity below lay the all but pulverized skeleton of a middle-aged man. His fine cloth raiment was in tatters, but his burial jewelry made as rich a display as it had when he was interred 13 centuries ago. A jade diadem covered his skull, and...
Bitter Motto. The refugees huddle in leaky tents, dress in tatters, live on dates and flour. Their children run wild; the camps are periodically menaced by smallpox, dysentery, typhoid. The Arab refugees' bitter motto: "The enemy of my enemy is my friend."
Last week the late, long-forgotten Tobey achieved new fame. Moscow Radio Commentator Berko told listeners about "the little dog Tobey who lives in a very beautiful, richly decorated house, built by the best architects in the country . . . His mistress, a mad American woman, left it $75 million . . . The dog...
Pounding Hooves. By the last performance ("go-round" in cowboy lingo), the contestants' gaudy shirts were in tatters, the carefully creased broad-brimmed hats had been mashed and shredded by pounding hooves, and the embroidered boots were mud-splattered. But the show was a rousing success.