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...Hell no, I'm going to play the field...
South of Warsaw, Marshal Rokossovsky's armies swarmed to the Vistula, cleared a 60-mile stretch of the east bank, paused while their artillery poured hell into the German positions on the other side. Here the river was 600 feet wide, but no river had held up the Red engineers very long...
...have ever known." Novelist Edna Ferber called him a "New Jersey Nero who mistook his pinafore for a toga." Sometimes his most devoted admirers found his cantankerousness hard to bear. "I find you are beginning to disgust me, puss," he once snarled at a guest. "How about getting the hell out of here...
...During the rest pauses, super-active Randolph would think up various picnic pleasures, such as constructing a nice bivouac when all we wanted was to be left alone and lie in the grass. He never fussed about the cold, hunger, thirst, sore feet or German bullets, and only raised hell when the Partisan barber wanted to give him a shave without hot water. He smoked what the rest of us did, and the Russian general and I rolled cigarets for him, pasting them with our tongues. Mine would always fall apart in Churchill's fingers, which caused...
...group of Socialist demonstrators was arrested in Roxbury. One of them was charged with having shouted: "To hell with the American flag." He denied it, but admitted in court that he thought the Russian Revolution had been a good idea. It was Sidis, now become a Marxist. Sentenced to 18 months in the House of Correction, he appealed and the case was dropped. Then, like a skyrocket, he sank out of sight...