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...morning last week a 24-year-old Navy veteran named Jay Ramsey star tled city officials of Englewood, Colo, by dragging a divan into the City Hall...
...Commandant's cat, the waiters in the Mess Hall, the Hell Cats (buglers), and all the Admirals in the whole - Navy." For the rest of the morning and all afternoon, indignity was piled on indignity. Between affronts, Woody lugged bed clothes, changed white shirt for grey, shut tled to & from the cadet store with supplies, learned about demeanor and demerits, drew a rifle, drilled, ran, crept, crawled, fell in but never out. When he finally stretched out in Beast Barracks that night, he understood exactly what they had meant at Annapolis when they spoke of "Hell on the Hudson...
...river were getting across as fast as possible. The enemy was certain to blow any bridge the Allies threatened to cross. A possible Allied countermove was a series of air borne operations launched at the eastern bridgeheads - but it seemed unlikely "that Allied paratroopers, in that thickly set tled territory, could achieve sufficient sur prise to stay the Nazi hand...
...tougher. The Germans bat tled the First Army from buildings, tow ers, tunnels, vaults. They fought viciously until their plight was hopeless, then sur rendered mildly. They were found hiding in brick kilns and under beds. One group, chased out of an electric plant, ran to an apartment house next door and resumed the battle there. Four Germans were captured in a pillbox on the sixth floor of a paper mill...
Funniest: A credit man who had bat tled C.A.C., came to it dolefully one day, hat in hand. His own affairs were a mess...