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Hazing had been particularly rough that Hell Week night. Next morning at one University of Washington fraternity house, a dozen "pledges"-all overseas veterans-packed their bags and walked out. Said a spokesman: "No 18-year-old kids are going to warm our bottoms." At Northwestern University, a sophomore "active" ordered a pledge to light his cigarette for him. The pledge, an ex-major in the Air Forces, gave the sophomore and his brothers heated and specific instructions about how they could dispose of his pledge...
...knew that, no matter what Phil Murray did, their ten big unions (with roughly 1,000,000 members) could make things rough for the C.I.O.'s Political Action Committee and for Harry Truman. Snorted Harry Bridges: "The Democratic Party hasn't the chance of a snowball in hell...
...other retiring veterans, Rodney and Nelson, wore scars from the Mediterranean and Normandy invasions. In 1941 the Rodney had come in close under the Germans' guns to be in at the kill of the "unsinkable" Bismarck. The Nelson caught torpedo hell off Malta, came back for an hour of triumph: on Sept. 29, 1943, the Italians went aboard her to sign their surrender to General Dwight Eisenhower. The "Nellie's" captain, A. H. Maxwell-Hyslop, likes to tell a yarn about an engagement off Normandy. "I had gone to bed one night after two or three nights without...
...Adolf Hitler Platz, where they listened to nationalist harangues beneath signs proclaiming: WE DEMAND GERMAN UNITY. In a Frankfurt movie theater, when a newsreel showed the American Friendship Train carrying food to Germany's neighbors, the audience yelled: "The Americans will let us starve. Let them go to hell...
...HEAR STRANGE THINGS ABOUT CATHOLICS. . . . You hear it said that Catholics believe all non-Catholics are headed for Hell . . . that they believe non-Catholic marriages are invalid . . . that they adore statues . . . are forbidden to read the Bible . . . use medals, candles and holy water as sure-fire protection against the loss of a job, lightning or being run down by an automobile...