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Marlene Dietrich, back after eleven months of USOing in Europe, greeted returning soldiers of the 44th Division by standing at the end of a Manhattan pier and waving a leg at them. She drew a deafening roar and a blizzard of coins. Then she had herself boosted to a porthole and really got down to cases (see cut). In Europe, she recalled, her most effective line was just, " 'Hello, boys'-I would just walk out on the stage, say that, and the house would come down. I don't know...
Steel to the Mills. From nine 16-in. rifles on each of the three battleships came a blinding flash, a deafening roar, an earthquake-like concussion; 2,100-lb. shells rained into the Imperial Iron & Steel Works in Kamaishi (prewar...
...production in Britain. There were more boos. Said Churchill: "All these plans will be nullified by foolish faction fights about idiotic ideologies and philosophical dreams about absurd Utopian worlds which will never be seen except by great improvements in the human heart and the human head." There was a roar of laughter. Said Churchill: "I'm sorry if that hurts...
...million men, women & children were jammed along the capital's wide avenues. People hung from windows, perched in trees. As the General passed, the roar of welcome all but drowned out the bands along the street. He stood in his car, arms outstretched, grinning as though at old friends. When police lines broke at 14th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, he leaned out to shake hands with those who pushed against his automobile...
...Guildhall had just finished playing My Old Kentucky Home. In the sudden silence came the sound of an honor guard presenting arms outside, then the loud voice of an announcer near the door: "The Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force!" The crowd came to its feet with a roar. Down the aisle, behind slow-walking officials in fur-trimmed blue, came General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower, his battle-dress pressed to Regular Army perfection, his face betraying his emotion. As he climbed to the dais, jammed with the great men of England, the applause went...