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...Night. Impatient of routine and red tape, Patton habitually asks and gets the impossible from his supply men. During the winter bog-down on the Saar front, the Third's tanks floundered in the greasy mud. Someone recommended "duck bills"-metal flanges to be welded to tank treads to give them wider grip. Patton tried to get them, "through channels," and finally got 168 duck bills- enough to equip one tank. Next day four companies of the Third's ordnance mechanics, about 1,000 men, were set to work on scrapped treads and other material. Patton wanted duck...
...next phase. There were some paratroopers hanging in the trees and they were murdered by the Germans. They were shot twenty times. It is fine in practice if you land in a tree but if there is a guy with a gun shooting at you you are a dead duck. I started getting out of my harness. Then somebody started shooting at me and I started a beautiful long Hungarian swear. The guy next to me said: 'Don't start those Jewish prayers now. They won't do you any more good...
...secretaries spend five to seven hours a day reading to him; his wife takes over in the evening. He conscientiously keeps up with plays and books which have a chance for Pulitzer Prizes. Sixteen weeks of the year he spends in a rented cottage at Bar Harbor, Me., duck-hunting in the Ozarks or fishing in Quebec -but keeps in telephone contact with his editors, and peppers them with yellow memos. Blind in one eye, and able to see only silhouettes with the other, he shoots only when a duck is outlined in the sky, fishes, like anybody else...
Live subjects and animated caricatures do not mix, and it is this fusion of flesh and fantasy which tends to create lopsided sequences, most notably in the last reel. As a result, "Three Caballeros" emerges as a somewhat confused, aimless travelogue on Mexico with Donald Duck or the sadistic penguin sharing the spotlight with Aurora Miranda or a beachful of Mexican bathing beauties...
...past year her stories have been entertaining Bostonians, so well that at times they drew as many as 300 responses, a considerable number of them from grownups. Sample story ingredients: a milk bottle, a violin, and a rake; a jockey, some snow, and a duck. Next week: an egg, a towel, and a light-all about an egg that almost cracks under the strain of modern living...