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Looking for clews, the police found a large wooden chest. Then a screen of wartime secrecy dropped down around the investigation, with the local U.S. G-men showing interest. In the chest were German and Japanese propaganda, elaborate maps, photos of important U.S. bridges, and a photo of one of the victims in the company of a "Japanese imperial personage." There was also a Japanese flag with insignia which suggested that the notorious Black Dragon Society might reach as far as Peru...
Backstage later Bergen was saying: "I just had to get that off my chest." But he was a hit and he stayed on, until Manhattan's lofty Rainbow Room bought Charlie's raillery. In keeping with this swank setting, McCarthy appeared in top hat & tails. Then Rudy Vallee put him on the air. Bergen had finally found his proper medium of communication: the microphone. Previously, many of Charlie's asides and much of their patter had been lost to the audience. Swift give-and-take (mostly give) is the essence of McCarthy's humor. Now everybody...
General Henry H. ("Hap") Arnold, of the U.S. Army Air Forces, pinned the D.S.M. on the bemedaled chest of Colonel Philip Cochran, 34-year-old inspiration for "Flip Corkin" of Milton Caniff's Terry and the Pirates comic strip. The citation: for crack performance in the first airborne invasion of Burma...
...field telephone buzzed. The colonel listened and growled into it: "We're still going but some of my companies are damned small." A Jap mortar opened up and the men around the colonel flattened out. The C.O. himself did not change his position. He stuck out his chest and spat: "The bastards...
...writes mostly about a fairly remote past and has not identified himself with the war. He is now somewhat disliked by a few younger writers for his pomposity and his airs; he is something of an eccentric - writes standing up, for instance, with his manuscript on an inclined chest-high table, like a speaker's rostrum...