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...started as an entry joke, but the Yardling didn't know his own strength, and his raucous call was overheard by a billied Navy sentry, who promptly passed the good word around the yard. It wasn't a call to battle stations, but it was almost as successful, for in a flash the Naval dorms were hermetically blacked...
Radiodramatist Corwin had overheard such authentic bits as a discourse between a Canadian and an English officer...
News dispatches contained evidence of incredible complacency. Five days before Singapore fell, the local authorities announced their intention to build air-raid shelters. A.P. Correspondent C. Yates McDaniel overheard a telephone conversation in which the manager of the Singapore radio asked permission of Governor General Sir Shenton Thomas to blow up the station because the Japanese were so close. Sir Shenton demurred; the situation was not so bad, he said. So the station went on broadcasting. Very soon, he wrote, in the midst of an admonition to keep fighting, the station went ominously dead...
...Louisiana-bound with his division (45th) for war games, Major Sandy Goodman acquired a consuming thirst from Texas' boiling sun and dusty highways. He didn't mind saying so into his radio transmitter. Major General George V. Strong, 8th Corps commander, inspecting the march from an airplane, overheard, ordered his pilot to land. They picked up a carton of iced bottled drinks at a roadside stand, flew back to the line of march and dropped the carton by parachute close to the parched Major...
...trunk in the Southern Hotel, wound up with the hanging of an Englishman named Arthur Maxwell three years later. For their work on the case, Johns and Thomas got a bonus of $2.50 apiece. Once he sat beside the driver of James G. Elaine's coach all day, overheard enough of the conversation inside to write probably the most complete story of a day in the life of a candidate ever put together...