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Last week the lean, 54-year-old Ulsterman sat down at dinner in his tent with the captive Thoma. On an oilcloth table cover he showed his rival how the battle had been won. "I told him," Montgomery reported afterward, "that I came to the desert in August. In September I met Rommel. In October I beat...
...first the correspondents lived in foxholes. When the marines had the situation in hand, the correspondents got a five-bunk tent ("The Press Club") with a luxurious wood floor and a water-bucket shower bath...
Arthur. In his private life, English-born Tedder kids his wife about her Australian ancestry, a long-standing ribbing which small, blonde Lady Tedder, after 26 years, bears resignedly. Tedder's one hobby is sketching. Sitting outside a tent in the Western Desert, flying from station to station, Tedder sketches...
...tent at the command post, the general found the whole staff having an animated conversation while the radio, unheeded, gave essential information...
...blood among some Barnum & Bailey sideshow performers produced a dressing-tent brawl in Kansas City involving the fat lady, Baby Betty, Sword-Swallower Patricia Smith, The Great Shackles, and a hula dancer. (The midgets ran out.) For hitting Baby over the head with a pop bottle, Swallower Patricia was fined $20 by a city judge. She said it was worth it. Shortly 500-odd-pound Baby sued the swallower for $3,000. The bottle had hit her so hard, she claimed, that "all bones, muscles, tissues, nerves and my entire body were bruised, contused, lacerated and sprained." Old Fashioned...