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...World War II equivalent of the homemade crystal set (circa 1920) with its galena rock and cat's whisker, turned up in force on the Anzio Beachhead. One of hundreds of U.S. infantrymen who made foxhole receivers to kill time and boredom at Anzio, Lieut. M. L. Rupert, sent a diagram and description of the set to the Marlin Firearms Co. (razor blades, etc.). Wrote...
...first battalion inspection is now behind us. (O.K. Mac, you can breathe out now.) Many new and interesting things were discovered. 1. Shoes can actually be shined by polishing. 2. That is a whisker on the foremost outcropping of your chin. Lt. Salmon said it was. 3. Ties and trousers are not to be worn at half-mast even if your Aunt Bessle...
...they picked up assorted limbs and 30 pairs of women's shoes. In No. 21's courtyard they dug into a lime-filled pit, hauled up the residue of 13 cadavers. But nowhere did they find the fiend responsible for France's goriest mass murder since whisker-ruffed Henri Désiré Landru, the 1920s' Bluebeard of Gambais, slaughtered ten women...
...This advertising version of an American dogface sprawls comfortably against a clean green jungle background. Not a wisp of whisker mars his healthy smiling puss. There's a press in his pants. And for gosh sakes, his shoes are shined...
...lower per 1,000 hours flown in the first eight months of 1942 than it had been in the ten years from 1930 to 1940, when the Air Corps prided itself on being a smart, seasoned outfit. The fatality rate had gone up, but only by a whisker...