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...gags that fans like. Two samples: he doffs his cap and, with a great show of respect, uses it to dust off third base to welcome any Cub who hits a home run; if a pitcher hits a homer, he topples over backwards in a mock dead faint. The more Grimm mugs, the better his Cubs seem to play...
Japanese prisoners were being taken as never before-although still not in large numbers. Four waved a white flag to a cub plane, threw away their rifles, trudged into infantry lines to give up. Two souvenir-hunting doughboys came back with 28 live Japs. Another Jap, surrendering to a sergeant, explained in fluent English, "I know Germany has fallen and our situation on Luzon is hopeless." Still another turned to his captors and asked plaintively: "What is it you have that breaks our Bushido spirit...
...than the one he hasn't.") And, incredibly enough, he was still the terror of matrons with unmarried daughters. The great bureau in his bedroom was stuffed with silk stockings, lingerie and perfume; to a lady who said she would prefer to be rewarded with a lion cub, Sickles gave a litter...
...Immediately several hundred Filipinos streamed out of a nearby village, jabbering excitedly and touching the Cub with awe; they hadn't seen more than three white men in a dozen years - they'd never seen a plane...
...days, official Washington attempted to play down the conference. At his press conference, Secretary Stimson twinkled to reporters: "You thought you saw the President [at the Pentagon] when you only saw his astral body." Yet the rankest cub reporter knew that something big was cooking, and the rumors began, to fly. And not all the rumors were wild: some of the information came from unquestionably well-informed-although unnamed-sources. The hottest report: Heinrich Himmler had offered to surrender unconditionally to the U.S. and Great Britain...