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Hour after hour, from noon when Stalin reached his office until early dawn when he retired to his apartment on the same floor, there were deferential callers. They found him looking tired. His thick hair and bushy mustache were greying. His belly was fattening under his khaki shirt. But usually his dark eyes flashed at his callers. He spoke to them brusquely, toughly, brandishing his arms...
...night, as the sky glowed red with fire, the Russians gave a monster party near the jetty. Singing Russian songs, dancing to the music of balalaikas and accordions, Canadians, Norwegians and Russians fraternized. As the dim white midnight brightened into dim white dawn, the Russians picked up their belongings and went aboard the ship allotted to them. The British and Norwegians boarded their vessel. Slowly they steamed down the fjord...
...hours before dawn one morning last week, Alexandria, La. (pop. 27,000) was wakened by the bangs and bops of rifle fire. In the moonlit streets below bedroom windows flame spurted from Springfields and Garands; from hedges, fences, shadows, machine guns chattered. Streets filled with clanking trucks and sputtering motorcycles. In Louisiana's Army maneuvers, soldiers of three divisions had met in the city, were settling down to fight for its possession. And Alexandria loved it. But Army authorities, mindful of the awful traffic tangle that 8 o'clock would bring, were horrified. Umpires straightway ordered the troops...
With the welcome approach of dawn planes cease to come in from Germany. The enemy squadrons--what is left of them--those that are not buried in the fields around the city--fly off, knowing well enough that a hot reception awaits them on the East, even over France where our fighters will follow them...
...rumor rose that he really ran a sweatshop of hacks. He was at work by dawn, silent at meals, neither drinking nor smoking; only the theater could keep him out of bed after 8 p.m. When he died 5,000 people were at his funeral...