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...truth about her was not so exciting. When she appeared before two congressional committees last week, she proved to be neither beautiful nor glamorous. She was plump and had a sharp nose and receding chin. She was not blonde; her hair was dark brown. But she was-or had been-a spy. There was no doubt about that. And the torrent of her confession was far more shocking than the fact that she was no Mata Hari...
Winston Churchill was up at once. Clutching the dispatch box with both hands, he thrust out his chin and growled ominously, "With great respect, may I plead humbly with the right honorable and learned gentleman to allow his duties to the House on an occasion of so much interest as this to take precedence over almost any engagement in the country...
...been a lieutenant colonel in Hitler's Elite Guard. He was intelligent, cunning, courageous. His face-ice-blue eyes, sabre-scarred chin, thin, contemptuous smile-was a symbol of Nazi fanaticism. He denied most of the legends that had grown around his name (one: that he had been assigned to assassinate General Dwight D. Eisenhower. Said he: "Only a rumor. You can be sure that if any attempt had been made it would have succeeded.") But the truth about Otto Skorzeny was impressive enough...
...father always swore when he cut himself with his old-fashioned chin mower. I said: 'Papa, if it hurts you so much to shave, why do you shave?' He replied, 'Egad, I don't know.' And he never shaved again...
During his last years the old soldier was stooped and weak. His cheeks were sunken and his once-square chin, below his clipped mustache, was bony and sharp. At times he was petulant. He fumed at being photographed, once cried: "To hell with the War Department-they can't make me have my picture taken...