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...Third Army at the time and told the story last week) wondered if Patton should not have shown more concern for his own soldiers. Major Baum, hospitalized and back in the U.S., offered an explanation which Patton himself did not think to mention. The 4th Division was able to pile through for a gain of 140 miles as a result of the confusion created among the Germans by Baum's gallant force...
...there was 21-year-old Irma Grese (who had worked in concentration camps since she was 17, and liked it). In the dock, she sat rigidly between Herta Ehlert and Use Lothe (see cut). When the prosecution showed a motion picture of a German guard slowly pushing a huge pile of rotting corpses into a pit with a bulldozer, Irma Grese calmly fixed her hair and blew her nose...
During the frantic race to build the atomic bomb, many incidental discoveries were made and put on ice. Among the most important: the radioactive by-products of the uranium-graphite pile. Almost any substance, stuck in the pile's atomic furnace, comes out brimming with radioactivity...
...Stettinius had redecorated the high-ceilinged walls and put two telephones in the Secretary's private bathroom. Jimmy Byrnes left the old, grey pile of masonry on Pennsylvania Avenue alone, but he changed the topside of the staff. It is now extraordinarily varied...
...water was dripping from their fingers and their scorched and hairless heads. . . . Men, both living and dead, were terribly mangled. .... We found one worker pinned under a twisted column. There was a piece of steel reinforcement through his neck. . . . There was another chap [whose legs were] buried under a pile of bricks and debris. ... He told us to get him out and never mind his legs, 'leave them there...