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Long Way Home. Promoted on the field to officer's rank, Lieut. Paige chose to stay with his men. ("No man could beat that gang.") He served with them brilliantly in the attack on Cape Gloucester and the taking of Hill...
Then I spoke with an M.P. who had escorted them into camp. "They're a nice gang of fellows," he said. ". . . Seeing them face-to-face like this, they seem like...
...issued clubs to the prison guards, ordered them to beat up a recalcitrant prisoner. When the guards refused, he called in MPs. The nine ringleaders of the prison gang (six white men, three Negroes) were taken into a tar-papered room. While the major stood outside, armed with a pistol and a submachine gun, the MPs flogged the prisoners' bare back sides with weighted rubber hoses. One man had to be taken to the hospital. By night fall, the story was all over camp - and Major Lefkoff's military career had ended...
...main, grueling job of shaping the platform to please one & all had fallen to Bob Taft because no one else could possibly do it. The subcommittees were loaded with Old Guard politicos, whose feudal opinions had to be leavened by the new gang of liberal Governors...
...Hitler Gang (Robert Watson, Victor Varconi, Luis Van Rooten, Martin Kosleck; TIME...