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...like to be made fun of!" During the rest pauses, super-active Randolph would think up various picnic pleasures, such as constructing a nice bivouac when all we wanted was to be left alone and lie in the grass. He never fussed about the cold, hunger, thirst, sore feet or German bullets, and only raised hell when the Partisan barber wanted to give him a shave without hot water. He smoked what the rest of us did, and the Russian general and I rolled cigarets for him, pasting them with our tongues. Mine would always fall apart in Churchill...
Sunny's thirst for knowledge is something of an anticlimax in a short but eventful life. She grew up in Matagorda, Tex., where her father was an oil man-"I guess you'd call him a wildcatter." He was also, says Sunny, "sort of a heller." One day he was shot in a Texas hotel room ("Right between the eyes," says Sunny). Nobody ever found...
...great thirst attacked British troops rushing emergency landing strips to completion in the dust of Normandy. Thinking of luckier comrades guzzling in country estaminets and town bistros, the runway builders began to grouse. They wanted beer...
...Richard Acland (leader of Britain's Common Wealth Party). This "versatile adventurer would apparently stop at nothing in his thirst for political leadership. Now, in the autumn of 1942, he reappears, happily leading a jumble of discontented people who find the existing administration of British affairs unendurable. The jumble is called 'Common Wealth.' . . . His intelligence is very limited and unstable. He is as imitative as a monkey, any claptrap that seems to be popular goes into his bag and any 'religious' cant, and his ambition for 'leadership' is uncontrollable...
...through the Japanese lines. Handsome Lieut. Colonel William E. Dyess (later killed in a West Coast airplane crash) survived that infamous march and escaped to tell the sickening story of how living soldiers were beheaded, or thrown into trenches and buried with the already dead; how Filipinos, dying of thirst, were shot as they wriggled on their bellies towards water; how a gutted soldier with bowels dangling was hung on barbed wire as an object lesson to those who would escape; how men who had dropped in the road were ground by the wheels of the Emperor's Ford...