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...baseball's best hitter, Waterloo is spelled Chicago. Tommy Holmes has found it hard to buy a hit at Wrigley Field all season, and last week his jinx park stopped him again-after he had hit safely in 37 straight games to bust Rogers Hornsby's modern National League record of 33. (Anyhow, the Boston Braves's roly-poly, 180-lb. right fielder had modestly figured Wee Willie Keeler's ancient 44-game mark as his goal, and had not seriously hoped that his luck would hang around until he caught Joe DiMaggio's American...
When police asked him to describe her he offered: "Over-attractive." Reunion Suits. In Waterloo, Iowa, a businessman was delighted to find his favorite prewar brand of underwear at a church rummage sale, bought some, found they were his own castoffs...
...Marshal Sir Bernard Law Montgomery carried a pair of worn boots into Hoby's Bootshop in London's West End on Friday, asked for repairs by "next Tuesday . . . I'll be needing them in Germany." Hoby's-recalling that Wellington wore his Hoby boots at Waterloo, that Nelson died in his at Trafalgar-broke its two-to-three-weeks-for-repairs rule, promised delivery...
Fontenoy, Waterloo and Dunkirk. The Coldstream Guards were organized by Oliver Cromwell's famed henchman, Colonel Monck, who taught them "to keep a line, stay unbroken, hold [fire] until the word of command." Nearly a century later, at the Battle of Fontenoy, Coldstream muskets wiped out the entire front line of the French Guards in a single volley. The Guards served with distinction at Waterloo, in the Crimea and in the Boer War. In Nieppe Forest in 1918, a handful of Coldstreamers were ordered to stand up to the great German advance at all costs, and were wiped...
...Private Bert Brennke, of Waterloo, Iowa stepped gingerly along a snow-covered road on the Belgian front, operating a mine detector. He would not let himself be distracted by an odd sound, different from the hum produced in his earphones by the presence of a mine...