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...barrage of bottles from inside the theater followed. An officer clubbed a youth who tried to break away while being questioned. Between 1,500 and 2,000 townspeople closed in, wielding brooms and sticks and throwing bottles, lumps of ice, tin cans, anything they could lay their hands on. Women shrieked: "Don't let them take our young men!" Drummondville city police stood by, watching...
Around the General stretched ten square miles of devastation, gutted office buildings, wrecked churches, a huge junkpile of crumpled tin. roofs. And stinking in the rubble were the bodies of at least 12,000 Japanese, merged in death's sickly odor with the bodies of thousands of Filipinos. The end came in fiery drama...
...reborn power and greatness." In effect, the General told the Big Three that the Big Fourth reserved all rights in the Far Eastern colony seized by the Japs before Pearl Harbor. Indo-China-bigger than France, with a population of 23,000,000, rich in rice, rubber, tin and zinc-is the French Empire's most precious colony...
Dogface Soldier was written in 1942 by two Long Beach, N.Y. soldiers, both strangers to Tin Pan Alley : Corporal Bert Gold, 27, onetime Manhattan movie-theater manager, now at Dale Mabry Field, Fla., and Lieut. Ken Hart, an ex-New York Times correspondent with the A.A.F. in Panama. Composer Gold confesses: "I banged out the theme with one finger and we called in a professional to do the arrangement. He was the man with the education and the man who got the $5." Technically, he characterizes his work as "a beat-up, old-fashioned style, spontaneous-sounding ballad...
...ideas. Supplying a heavy piece of change was slender, soft-spoken Del Webb, ex-minor-league pitcher who 16 years ago moved to Phoenix, Ariz., parlayed a saw and hammer into a million-dollar construction business. The other big moneyman was Marine Corps Captain Dan Topping, heir to a tin-plate fortune and owner of the Brooklyn Football Tigers.* The man with the ideas was baseball's brilliant screwball, redheaded Colonel Leland Stanford ("Larry") MacPhail -who aging ex-Boss Ed Barrow once said would buy the Yankees "over my dead body...