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...Came dawn and zero hour is on hand. . . . A Company forms up and. . . we're on our way. . . . What bush! Armored cars accompany us and it's still a miracle how they got through. A Company are to contact the enemy, artillery is to open up and the rest of the battalion is going to mop up the pieces. Our planes roar overhead, the heat is killing, the pace is terrific. We reach our first bound but the enemy are gone. I pass the word around: "Save your water." I rinse my mouth out and we go forward...
...first 100 days, had voted appropriations totaling $16,091,543,000. For his readers' benefit, he spelled it out: "sixteen billion, ninety-one million, five hundred and forty-three thousand dollars." Newshawk Smith then went off in a small spray of words like "staggering . . . stupendous . . . unrivaled since the dawn of creation." Carefully he added: "I am in some doubt whether the half has been told...
...honeymoon, the Perelmans wrote another play, All Good Americans, which failed to come off. Later they collaborated on the script for Ambush, one of 1939's best pictures, and Mr. Perelman gagged the best of the Marx Brothers' films. His best book (of four) was his first, Dawn Ginsbergh's Revenge (1929). On its jacket was the blurb: "This book does not stop at Yonkers." The Night Before Christmas does...
From its perch on the towering crags of Buda one dawn last week the Hungarian Foreign Office abruptly announced that Premier Count Paul Teleki had just died of a heart attack. Intimates of the Teleki family whispered that Count Teleki had taken poison. Finally doctors who examined the body signed a one-sentence communiqué: "Premier Teleki committed suicide at dawn April...
...Mexico City, before dawn one morning last week, 34-year-old Captain Gabriel Avila Camacho stopped for breakfast at Wimpy's, a hot-dog tavern on the Avenida Oaxaca, near the U.S. Embassy. He was on his way to Texcoco, 25 miles away, where he was building a factory. Gabriel is the youngest of four Avila Camacho brothers. His older brother, Manuel, is President of Mexico...