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Robertson has had a varied and colorful career. After working on the business board of the Michigan University daily, he got a job as a cub reporter on the Washington Times, a Hearst paper, and followed his apprenticeship there by a ten year term as correspondent for the Associated and United Press services...
...could report to the Ninth Air Force that its Lightnings and Thunderbolts had done a "simply tremendous" job of messing up enemy tanks and guns. Trains of C-47 transports had come over to parachute supplies (eventually more than 1,500 tons were dropped). A surgeon arrived by Piper Cub. More medical help was coming. There was a heart-warming Christmas gift: air pictures showing a ring of burning enemy tanks and vehicles all around Bastogne...
...command post, six miles from Paris on the Orleans-Paris road. Here the last German resistance outside Paris was being slowly reduced, while inside the city the Germans and the F.F.I, fought a bitter battle that had already lasted six days. Late in the afternoon a French cub plane flew in 50 yards above the Cathedral of Notre Dame, on the He de la Cite where the F.F.I, had its headquarters, and dropped a message which said simply: "Tomorrow we come...
...most famed was one he drew in 1902 after hearing that Teddy Roosevelt, at the end of a bagless hunting trip in Mississippi, had refused to shoot a scrawny cub dragged into camp on a rope by two sympathetic Negroes. The "Teddy bear" he drew (see cut) passed into the national folklore, appeared in prose, verse, stage dialogue, political debate, persists as the toy bear which supplanted wooly lambs in the arms of children...
Guide on the Hood. Gangling Mark Clark dropped in for a look, transferred from his Piper Cub to a jeep, toured for three hours, a Partisan guide roosting on the hood. He found weeds growing in the boulevards, only a tenth of the peacetime population of 125,000 still pottering through the dismal embers left by Allied bombings, German demolitions. The 60 docks, 35 cranes, 21 warehouses were an addled mess. Across the harbor entrance lay three sunken ships. It was plain that Leghorn would be little help to Allied supply problems for weeks to come...