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Eddy drove his captives in his command car to headquarters and served them his best brandy. By radio he notified Major General Joseph Lawton Collins, VII Corps commander. "Lightning Joe" Collins said he'd be right over. While they waited, good host Eddy tried to make small talk. Schlieben was taciturn; Hennecke was glad of the chance...
Germans' Guess. In this division of duties, the more spectacular role went to U.S. VII Corps troops, battling toward Cherbourg. Infantrymen of the 4th Division smashed into Montebourg, and the Germans decided this was the main drive, in a straight line for Cherbourg...
...them to resist the Germans "with all means . . . wherever resistance is possible." Both leaders added special warnings to underground fighters not to be tricked into premature action, but to follow only genuine Allied orders broadcast from London. Similar messages of encouragement and caution went to Norway from King Haason VII, to Poland from Premier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk...
This encounter can hardly be compared with the brilliant spectacle of a few months later. Mem Hall was crowded to capacity that winter night, for King Edward VII, then Prince of Wales, was inspecting Harvard and was the center of attention at the gay banquet in his honor...
...land as "Q," red-haired Quiller-Couch (Couch, pronounced Cooch, means red in Celtic) wrote the first of his 30 romantic novels (Dead Man's Rock) in 1887, edited the Oxford Book of English Verse. An Oxford graduate, he was longtime (since 1912) King Edward VII Professor of English Literature at Cambridge. He always wore traditional morning dress to his lectures, relaxed in old clothes and a battered brown derby as famed in England as Al Smith's in the U.S. In 1922, sharp-faced, crusty Q addressed and amazed a conference of churchmen: "I do hold that...