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...captured by the Germans at Cherbourg. Three days later he jumped out of his prison train and made his way, disguised as a Norman peasant, to the Channel coast and eventually to London. He led the unfortunate assault on Dakar, where he took some lead in his thigh. After he recovered from his wound in French Equatorial Africa, where he organized Free French merchant shipping, he went to Canada to lecture, back to London to broadcast, and then, on the destroyer Le Triomphant, out to romantic Oceania to resist...
...other side. Their train, barnacled with soldiers on roof and sides, was raked again & again with machine-gun bullets. Three out of four of the reporters who were riding together were wounded, one seriously. St. John says he did not know that he had been shot through the thigh until he finally reached Corinth by bumming a ride on an R.A.F. truck...
John L. Lewis' defiance of the President jarred the whole U.S. From left & right, commentators smote him hip & thigh. Cried the pinko New Republic: "The magnificent megalomania of John L. Lewis has reached its apogee." The cartoonists of the nation with almost unexampled unanimity took their pens and demolished him (see cuts...
...suit of overalls has among its beauties those of a blueprint: and they are a map of a working man." After a while "the edges of the thigh pockets become stretched and lie open, fluted, like the gills of a fish. . . . The texture and the color change in union, by sweat, sun, laundering . . . into a region and scale of blues, subtle, delicious, and deft beyond what I have ever seen elsewhere approached. . . . [The shirt] breaks like snow, and is stitched and patched . . . and stitches and patches are manifolded upon the stitches and patches, and more on these, so that...
...halfback line constitutes the weakest portion of the eleven. Slingerland at center-half is big and powerful, but lacks sufficient control and experience. Mort Myerson, left halfback, although not excessively fast has plenty of punch and fighting ability. Left halfback Wes Truscott, at the moment hampered by a pulled thigh, is an individual specialist but has yet much to acquire in team play. Chief half back substitutes include George Mallory and Bill Butcher...