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Into this explosive situation last week trod President Truman. As is his wont, the President simplified the complex situation...
...Chicago Daily News's ace of whimsy, round and jovial Bob (Robert J.) Casey, is no man to sit around waiting for strange and wonderful things to happen. Once, when he heard that a couple of scientists were to climb to a Grand Canyon plateau never before trod by man, he flew over it dropping old whiskey bottles and Ford parts for the amazed scientists to find. More recently, as a roving war correspondent, he has had no trouble finding stories worth reporting...
...Twas the Night Before. . . . In San Antonio, an ex-newspaper reporter turned Santa Claus (for a local department store), returned from lunch two hours overdue and tipsy, trod on a shiny, bright red wagon, coasted halfway across the floor, barked at the fascinated kiddies who pattered to his rescue: "Get away, you little bastards...
...tops of the banks were covered with mines. I shuddered, hesitated, then peered into the gloom, hoping I might be able to see where I could tread with safety. But the Jocks didn't stop-they literallv leaped toward the enemies' trenches through the half-light. Two trod on mines and had their feet blown off, but their moans, if they moaned, could not be heard, for the Jocks' Sten guns were chattering and terrified Jerries were yelling, "Kamerad! Kamerad...
...invasion of Leyte was like no other in the long series which had carried Douglas MacArthur back to the Philippines. It was the first piece of recovered U.S. soil he had trod; it was an area where fighting had never entirely ceased...