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Last Word. In Manhattan, a British tar who had spent part of the night at a bar telling U.S. sailors how much better everything is in Britain, awoke with a hangover and a pain in his chest, found he had been tattooed with the U.S. flag and "God Bless America...
Private James Hawkins of South Gate, Calif, has a fearsome red beard. He met eight Japs, killed three of them. They shot him in both sides of his chest. Supposedly dying, Private Hawkins was removed to a ship. Early next morning someone found him walking the decks. "I had a hunch that if I got up and took a walk I'd live," Private Hawkins explained. He was right...
...close observers: into an office in the new wing of the White House, as one of the "anonymous assistants," had moved swarthy, soft-voiced David K. Niles, political tipster and fixer extraordinary, a smooth operator who wangled $500,000 from the United Mine Workers for the 1936 Democratic war chest and who was undercover man for the New Deal janizariat in many a quiet operation during the 1940 campaign. Niles's presence close to the President has a plain meaning: Mr. Roosevelt needs an able watcher -to keep a finger on all important political developments, large & small...
...returned to London to write some of the most vivid stories of World War II (see p. 26). Three of the 22 landed on the Dieppe beaches and got back alive. Only casualty was International News Service's Larry Meier, who was cut in the face and chest by shrapnel but got himself patched up and wrote his story...
...only Big Train; at the plate the one & only Bambino, the greatest pitcher of all time v. the greatest swatter of them all. Between the first and second games of a war-chest doubleheader- New York Yankees v. Washington Senators-Walter Perry Johnson (54) and George Herman ("Babe") Ruth (47) stepped out of the Hall of Fame this week to take one last crack at each other...