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...billet Rodriguez alone. "I guess I have had more shoes thrown at me than any man in the Army," Rodriguez recalls with mixed sadness and pride. "Even when we went out for battle drill and all dug foxholes together to sleep in, it was the old story. When I woke in the morning everybody else had got out and dug themselves another foxhole...
Time's Nick. In Washington, pious Seaman First Class Robert Baker won a free phone call to Louisiana in a Scripture-reading contest, woke his family in time to rescue them from poison gas leaking from a heater...
...police force, hunted high & low. He did not find Aguirre Cámara or his printing plant. On schedule, the pamphlet appeared. Entitled Demagogia, Inflación y Armamentismo (Demagoguery, Inflation and Militarism), it passed through the mails in envelopes like those used by Government agencies. Before the police woke up to the trick, it had reached a wide audience. A single copy now brings as much as 1,000 pesos...
...trains, operated by the Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad, collided at 2:20 a.m. The crash woke Albert Kellett and his wife Ruth. Kellett threw back the covers sleepily and looked out the window. Lights were glowing strangely in the fog over the railroad right of way; soon he began to hear men screaming in the dark fields. Then the boiler of one of the locomotives blew up. Kellett telephoned for help and ran out into the night. Some of the airmen were crying for morphine; others stumbled aimlessly through the blood-spattered wreckage...
First Frost. In Jersey City, Ignatz C. Banikonis, tipsy and overheated, lay down for a short nap, melted his way through the crust on a pool of tar, woke in the morning frozen in the tar except for part of his head and right side...