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Poor Johnson, he is engagingly blithe and brave, but just too big for his britches. He is not even a good clerk. Almost daily, his debts and love of swagger drive him to shaky deeds. He takes graft and kickbacks from payrolls, sells secret government information to the natives. When...
Umpires praised the skilled British-Dutch-Belgian "Blueland" defense. Withdrawing in order to gain time to mobilize, they kept their vehicles properly spaced, lost only a few units in traps. The Belgians did particularly well fighting off a night paratroop attack. U.S. units in the "Redland" invader force were commended...
"Golf, Futball, Schuting." As captain (i.e., president) of the R. & A., Ouimet occupies a purely honorary post, serves as custodian, for a year, of the St. Andrews cross: two silver clubs joined together. But he joins a tradition almost as old as golf itself. Historians estimate that the natives of...
But such bloopers are becoming rarer as reporters learn to detect the booby traps. The heartening fact is that in the years when history has borne down on the U.S. like an express train so many Washington correspondents have caught so much of the news.
Long before the transports arrive, the frogmen mine the concrete and steel traps with lung-bursting patience, blast them out of the path of the assault troops. Donning rubber suits and shoulder-fitted oxygen tanks, they give the picture its most gripping sequence by slipping through the steel net of...