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...might be your kind, and then it might not. Because too many people get the idea that it's got to be smooth to be good, that you've got to have soft lights and Ray Eberle singing Amapola with a sickly look on his face while all the Pine Manor Promtrotters swoon in droves. If that's what you like then Nick's isn't the place for you, because you'll be saying "Why that's old-fashioned stuff. It's corny, nobody plays that way any more. Give me the Andrews Sisters!" Well, there...
...march had begun two days before. Few minutes after midnight the Reconnaissance Troop had pulled out of the pine-shadowed reservation at Benning, was far south when the rest of the outfit turned out of bed at 3 a.m. and got ready to move. By dawn the whole outfit was rumbling south toward Florida on parallel roads. In approach-to-battle formation, trucks rumbled 100 yards apart; machine gunners stood with their eyes on the skies getting the habit of watching for planes; soldiers of the three infantry regiments rode in trucks (soon to be replaced by 603 troop carriers...
There must have been an extraordinary meeting that morning in his pine-paneled workroom, with his aides: General Alfred Jodl, the powerful, anonymous chief of his personal staff; huge Julius Schaub, his personal adjutant and bodyguard; Chief Adjutant Colonel Schmundt of the General Staff; Army Aide Major Engel; Navy Aide Captain von Puttkammer; Air Aide Major von Below, and a few others-Adolf Hitler's trusted links with the fighting forces whose preparations were already made...
...North America in 1916, was proved to pass part of its life cycle on barberry bushes. So, within twelve years, some 18,500,000 of these bushes were destroyed in the U. S. alone. Wild currants were eradicated because they nourished a blister-fungus of U. S. white pine...
Attendant griefs, bungles, triumphs at Fort Bragg helped to explain why the Army had to up its cost estimates a third. Green surveyors in the pine woods at Bragg sometimes made ridiculous mistakes, staked out building sites where none was supposed to be. Many a Tarheel carpenter had to be taught his trade on the job (but General Devers was lucky: of all his laborers, only the plumbers had a union shop). Uncanny disasters twice hit the already insufficient water supply. On two different days, a million gallons unaccountably vanished from the reservoirs. General Devers twice had to forbid bathing...