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As The Fox, a radio Sherlock Holmes, brash Mr. Skelton has become a national byword because of his beguiling skill at inventing and solving murder mysteries and sundry crimes. Such is his fame that he is kidnapped by a racketeering evangelist (Conrad Veidt) for the express purpose of devising a...
In dry weather the ruts and holes in Pennsylvania Avenue were "iron traps, covered with thick dust." Rain turned the Avenue into a channel of mud. Flocks of geese waddled in it, "and hogs . . . roamed at large, making their muddy wallows on Capitol Hill and in Judiciary Square."
Each island, each cluster, each pool, each fortress would be circular-so that it could not be attacked from "the rear"-and autonomous-capable of holding out after others were knocked out. The system was calculated to canalize enemy attack into defiles covered by cross fire from several islands at...
Here the islands were little bunkers, the larger units were fortresses which the Russians call "bins." Some were visible, to draw attack in their direction-into traps of other bins camouflaged with turf. Some served as huge underground tank hangars. From each bin, "drains" were dug-trenches to give egress...
Over 1,000 tons of bombs had been unloaded on and around this old shell of a town. Very few of its once neat white walls still stood intact. In the harbor the skeletons of Italian and British ships lay half-sunk, scuppers awash. The arid country around town was...