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Your Nov. 10 report on the SS meeting in Verden, Germany, addressed by ex-Paratrooper General "Papa" Ramcke, reminded me of the circumstances of his capture by our 13th Regiment of the 8th Division . . . on Sept. 19, 1944. Word was received that General Ramcke desired to surrender. He and his staff were in a bunker 75 feet underground, on the Crozon Peninsula outside Brest . . . At 1830 hours, Brigadier General Charles D. W. Canham . . . appeared to accept surrender. Very haughtily, Ramcke demanded of Canham his credentials. Canham pointed to the accompanying Tommy-gun and BAR men and replied: "These...
Older Roots. As the galley proofs of the new Burke's appeared, however, a few fortunate families found themselves tied to a past they never suspected. Sir Edward John Chichester learned from conscientious Editor Pine that one of his ancestors was knighted in the 13th rather than the 14th century. Earl Howe, three of whose lordly antecedents fought Washington in the American Revolution and whose family never dared peep behind Henry VIII for forbears, learned that his line went right back to Richard I, second of the Plantagenets. "There is a very great probability," said Editor Pine last week...
Paul Grand, 13th, and George Blagdon, 16th, rounded out the scoring for Eliot...
...oath to tell a Senate judiciary subcommittee whether they were or had ever been Communists. All twelve claimed the protection of the self-incrimination clause in the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution; one even refused to answer when asked if he was currently spying on the U.S. A 13th witness did admit she had been a Communist back in 1935, but added: "I am not apologetic...
Bell on the Border. One morning last August, Mieczyslaw, just past his 13th birthday, left home again. He carried an old briefcase containing a pair of sneakers, a box of matches and four pounds of bread. He had 200 zlotys ($50) in his pocket. He took a train to a town near the Oder, crossed the river on a ferry, and headed for the Polish-German border. He got lost in the forests, ate the last of his bread, dug potatoes out of a field and baked them. Near the border he found coils of barbed wire looped along...