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Mangled and burned were Miss Lombard, the other three civilian passengers, the 15 Army flyers, the crew of three. The transport had smacked straight into the mountain's steep wall, only 200 feet below the peak, then had slid, broken, into a ravine. For yards around, the scattered pine trees were scarred, the snow melted clean away. Why the plane had crashed, nobody yet knew...
...Southern Pines. The President's staging was expert. His train left Washington in midafternoon, arrived in warm, pine-fragrant Georgia the next morning. He motored 40 miles from Newnan to Warm Springs under a cobalt sky, talked happily for a half-hour with Marguerite ("Missy") LeHand, his secretary for 21 years, now slowly recovering from acute neuritis [at the Foundation]. He drank his favorite old-fashioneds at a cocktail party given by Warm Springs Trustee Leighton Goldie McCarthy, 71-year-old Canadian Minister to the U.S., and went to his annual Warm Springs turkey dinner, twice postponed...
...approaches to Moscow make a first-class military cemetery. The land is mostly flat, some of it gently rolling. To the northwest there are numerous swamps, now partly frozen. To the north there are great, patchy forests, which even in winter are good cover because they consist mostly of pine and spruce. All around is a net work of rivers-Volga, Moskva, Oka, Sherna, Protva, Ugra, Ruza, Yauza-which are now mostly frozen...
...Minnesota Harvard men are the worst offenders of the lot of us. There're millions of them scattered around the House system and the Yard, and Wellesley and Pine Manor are teeming with Gopheresses...
...included subdued riffs by Benny Carter's Septet, tap dancing by an extraordinary young Negro named Baby Lawrence, songs by Maxine Sullivan, three of them to harpsichord accompaniment. The recital got chastely in the groove when the harpsichord, precisely pecked by willowy, red-haired Sylvia Marlowe, gave forth Pine-top's Boogie, rolling bass...