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...Best They Can. Thus ended last week the first formation jump by the Marine Corps's first paratroops: Company A, Second Parachute Battalion. For Captain Robert Hugh Williams, Company A's commander, the day's jump was his 13th...
...left Germany for Switzerland, where he spent the rest of his life. He disliked the country intensely, regarded it as "a waiting room plastered with Swiss views." But in the 13th-Century Muzot Castle, he delivered his final elegies: those tremendous, all but murderous mysteries of mind, swarming with "exciting, dangerous, forbidding" angels, which Mrs. Butler calls "the strangest perhaps of all the strange poems our century has produced." Rilke is one of the most difficult of poets to translate; but this passage on angels will faintly suggest both his quality and the violence of the Muzot experience...
...with them, play with them, organize their spare-time activities. They are another instance of how the Roman Catholic Church has flourished for so long: by fostering religious orders suited to the times-Benedictines in the Dark Ages to give a Christian meaning to manual labor, Franciscans in the 13th Century to offset the Church's luxury, Jesuits in the 16th Century to lead the Counter-Reformation...
Aglow with confidence, Conn came out for the 13th round. "I got you, Joe," he had taunted. But the champ was not the champ for nothing. And The Kid was still a kid. Instead of continuing to jig & jab, Conn did just what he had been warned not to do: he sailed into shufflin' Joe, began swapping punches. This was what the cool-headed champ had been waiting for. Before the swaggering youngster knew what had struck him, he was staggering under a bombardments of rights & lefts. Two seconds before the bell, he was curled up on the canvas...
...colonel addressed us on Friday evening the 13th and informed us that we'd be leaving at 6 a.m. the following day for the purpose of capturing El Wak. Big cheers, beer, sentiment, fellows pulling others to the side and rather shamefacedly asking for nice letters to be written to their families in case anything happened, water checked, rations checked, grenades charged, etc. . . . We were a pretty huge force. . . . Troops from the Gold Coast and East Africans accompanied...