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...Thunder rolls on the Potomac when reference is made to Curmudgeon Ickes' middle name. Spelled sometimes Le Clair, sometimes Le Claire or LeClare, the correct spelling has never been discovered. Ickes intimates who have put the question, and survived, hint that LeClare is Ickes' most-favored version of his mosthated name...
...York City's Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia had dreamed of marching to glory as a brigadier general. Last week he discovered that he was merely an expendable. When word got around that little Butch was going to North Africa, men uprose on Capitol Hill to thunder: "Political generals!" Forthwith Fiorello was dumped overboard by the President, a casualty of Franklin Roosevelt's new policy of appeasing Congress...
...barrage which preceded the infantry attack and a pretty thing it was too. There were nearly 200 guns, twenty-five-pounders and mediums, along a front of nearly six miles. The barrage began at 3:15 and for ten minutes the hills were lit by lightning flashes and the thunder of guns rolled all along the front...
...ordered the sentry not to let the volunteers follow him. But they stormed the gangplank. Cried one of the new conquistadors, slapping his commander on the back: "You don't git off from us, old hoss! For by Ingin corn we'll go plum through fire and thunder with you. What'll you drink, General? Don't be back'ard! Sing out!" Kearny shocked his volunteers by ordering wine...
...been an extraordinary fortnight in the air over North Africa. The sky, except for a few rude little patches, belonged to the Allies. Across its trackless terrain thundered all the fine names-the Flying Fortresses, Halifaxes, Wellingtons, Liberators, Bisleys, Mitchells, Bostons, Marauders, Baltimores, Lightnings, Spitfires, Beaufighters, Hurri-bombers, Aira-cobras, Kittyhawks, Warhawks. But though the aerial terrain was trackless, the pattern of the thunder was very exact, very formal-and very effective...