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Gamut. In Montana, Mary Flynn began her teaching career in a town named Paradise, ended it in one called Hell Gate...
...Dealers on Capitol Hill were shocked and angry. Had not the President read their memorandum warning him against compromise? The White House switchboard began to buzz with incoming calls. But the President did not answer. Muttered one top New Dealer: "Now we're in one hell of a fix. Roosevelt, by God, has only himself to blame." Finally word went to Texas' New Dealers: Never mind the Stevenson plan; fight for control of the Dallas convention...
...head taken off, at turret line. At that point the lieutenant had taken over. He had fired four rounds from his 37-mm. gun against a German heavy's hide. "They bounced off just like tennis balls," he said, "and we got to hell out of there." He gazed at his hand some more, and said again: "They bounced off, sons of bitches, just bounced...
...Allied advance toward Calais goaded the Germans to fire last stinging salvos from their big cross-Channel guns. Some 100 big shells crashed down on the Dover strip ("Hell's Corner") in the space of four hours.* One deaf old lady of 82 slept on, unhurt, while her home was wrecked. When fire wardens awoke her amid the ruins, she looked around, said: "What a mess...
Georges ("Georgeous Georges") Carpentier, dapper light-heavyweight boxing hero of the '20s and a French air-force veteran of World Wars I & II, was met in Paris by sight-seeing U.S. soldiers who questioned him in schoolboy French, mobbed him when he wisecracked in English: "Why the hell don't you speak your own language? Don't you recognize me?" Carpentier said that his Paris nightclub had been taken over by the Nazis, declared that he had cooperated with the enemy only once, and then under pressure, when he refereed a fight in Berlin. His only question...