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...storm was wheezing out toward the Atlantic, it added one more to its total of twelve victims. In Brooklyn, N.Y., it toppled a cornice from a limestone front, buried a Miss Essie Stone, 55, under a pile of lethal debris...
...Longfellow in 1864, many a doubt would come to the U.S. as it celebrated Christmas of 1941. Nevertheless, parents would work late into the night trimming the trees until the branches dripped tinsel, stars, iridescent glass balls, red-cotton Santa Clauses, the old-fashioned popcorn strands. They would pile presents underneath, wrapped in cellophane and tissue paper, tied with ribbons and bows...
...under tougher conditions. Under big, hardboiled, disciplinarian Lieut. Colonel Leigh Bell, onetime line coach at U.C.L.A., they are broken out at 6:15 a.m., spend the rest of the day at everything from close-order drill to digging emplacements. In wrinkled fatigue uniforms, with packs on their backs, they pile through mud and brambles, scrape out fox holes and rifle pits whenever their "noncom" gives the word. To serve as their enemy in mock warfare, the Training Center employs maneuver-wise enlisted men. Students who make mistakes hear about it on the spot, and errors have to be corrected...
Ashore at Rosslare people saw a great flash. They thought the light's fuel had blown up. They put out in a lifeboat. In the kitchen of Tuskar Light they found Patrick Scanlon, dying of injuries. They found William Cahill under a pile of debris, unhurt. Above, beside the light, they found Peter Roddy, unconscious. Tuskar Light still shone the way into Rosslare for the skippers of dumpy mail boats...
...second half the Crimson first team started to pile up points by means of some much-improved teamwork, and they ended the third quarter with the large lead of 13 points...