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...drive away. The car's gears were locked in reverse when the wrecker arrived. The truck driver tried to yank the gears into neutral, but couldn't, so he towed the car forward with gears locked. The drive cost the owner five dollars plus a now transmission...
...with the Communists. "They will become unbelievably agreeable when the West begins to act," he said. Reuter's idea of action was to rearm Germany within a European framework, then launch a "political offensive to get the Soviets peacefully out of Europe." "Why should only the Soviets say, "Yank, go home!' " he demanded. "Why don't we all start saying 'Ivan, scram...
Richardson, a journalism graduate of Indiana University, came to TIME after a war career as a soldier-reporter for Yank Magazine in the Far East. He was the Army weekly's first cor respondent in the Pacific, covered the New Guinea campaign, walked an esti mated 600 miles in forays behind enemy lines in Burma with Merrill's Marauders, rode the first convoy over the Ledo-Burma Road from India to China, dropped into Japanese-held Rangoon with Gurkha paratroops, and was awarded the Legion of Merit by General Douglas MacArthur...
...published in the U.S., was about a go-getting young Briton whose law career rose almost as fast as his character dropped. In Westward the Sun, his heroine is a beau-getting, lower-middle-class London girl who ditches her British fiance during World War II to become a Yank's war bride...
...place in Yankee legend with the 5 that Joe DiMaggio wore, the 4 that Lou Gehrig wore, and the 3 that Babe Ruth wore (a number now officially retired by the Yankees). That would mean years of recurring headaches for American League pitchers, years of merrily clicking turnstiles for Yank:ee Stadium...