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...field marshal. His patrol in jungle-matted New Guinea was working through to the coast beyond Buna. Near the grass-thatched village of Tarakena a Jap machine gun fired on them. Japs in foxholes and trenches held the village. Young Schwartz, seeing his patrol outnumbered, deployed two men to pin down the machine gun, two others as snipers on the village's sea flank. The remaining nine men and Schwartz charged the village firing. Surprised Japanese, apparently believing themselves outnumbered, retreated into the snipers' line of fire, fell like tenpins. The advance machine gun was knocked...
...Bowling's biggest tournament, the American Bowling Congress free-for-all that attracts some 30,000 pin-topplers every spring, has been canceled...
...Rewards. Last week Art Tilt was a happy man-his company was going great guns, an Army-Navy E flag floated over his neat, compact factory, his employes had just surprised their tough-guy boss with a gold trophy and a diamond-studded pin to show their "friendship and esteem [in] recognition of 38 years of continuous leadership unmarred by labor strife or serious dispute." Chicagoans chuckled, too, over the latest story of the famed Tilt temper. In a purple rage because his Packard was hard to start one cold Sunday morning, Art jumped out of the car, grabbed...
...Cydoner published a lush collection of pin-up girls each week-and kidded the scanty pants off them. A movie starlet with a guitar was merely "what you are not likely to find in the South Sea Islands." Another leggy gal "just happened to fit in this space." Readers were warned of a classy near-nude: "This girl can take care of her own tactical situation...
...Bergh was granted police powers by New York State authorities, soon became the terror of all horse drivers. He would go into battle in a high silk hat, waxed moustaches, gleaming gold scarf pin, yellow kid gloves, Prince Albert coat. When he pointed his accusing cane, police would drag an offending driver from his seat, haul him into court. If drivers argued, Bergh often knocked their heads together with his own well-manicured hands...