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...party. Behind him through lines of bowing guests, like a plainly dressed retainer showing off a gorgeous bull mastiff, came India's Jawaharlal Nehru. After several days of such festivity, the Marshal decided that he should also demonstrate that he was a Socialist man of the people. Tito thereupon upset New Delhi's snob-laden society by inviting red-turbaned railroad porters to a diplomatic reception. "You have seen all my uniforms," joshed
...Indians in the World Series.' Carrington was unsure about 'Indians,' so we agreed to change it to 'Redskins.' 'World Series' seemed to be asking a bit too much of the drummers, so Carrington made it 'competition.' The message was thereupon relayed to one drummer as 'The Giants beat the Redskins in the competition.' The old drummer practically split the lips of his instrument beating out the message, and we walked over to the other drummer to ask what he had heard. His answer: 'The crocodile got the better...
Brasshat Without Brass. In 1944 the fading Goring relieved his fighter chief. In 1945, Galland wangled command of an elite ME 262 outfit known, because of the pack of aces he collected for it, as the "Squadron of Experts." The big picture thereupon dissolved to the gun-sight view. With the oldtime exhilaration, ex-Brasshat Galland blew up two U.S. Marauders. Then "a hail of fire enveloped me. A Mustang had caught me napping. A sharp rap hit my right knee. The instrument panel . . . was shattered. The right engine was also hit. Its metal covering worked loose . . . and was partly...
...gave the least money towards the revolution-and who have since refused to help with the revolution's debts. Last week, thoroughly exasperated. President Castillo Armas ruled that if gratitude were not motive enough to produce aid from the rich, the law would have to serve instead. He thereupon decreed a drastic capital levy...
...Thereupon Watkins recessed the hearings and left McCarthy high and dry. Gasped Joe, in the week's best gasp: "This is the most unheard-of thing I ever heard of." Soothed Lawyer Williams: "Now, don't get excited...