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Jack Wallace's single to left with the bases loaded spearheaded the fifth inning, mopping up after Conlon, John Coppinger, and Mel Allen had loaded the sacks. The trio of runs punched across in the last three frames, scoring Allen, Ken Crumrine, and Arnie Closky, were all routine.
The leadoff man in this inning beat out an infield hit and moved along to second when the next man walked. When the following two batters went down on a strikeout and a pop fly, the pressure was off Wallace, but he suddenly went wild, tired badly, and walked three...
Shortly before noon today the bodies were removed to a mortuary. Mussolini and Petacci were dragged like sacks of grain into a high-walled courtyard. Men, women & children followed, climbing the brick wall and peering over at the shapeless pulp that was the Duce's face. The people'...
Banker Vieck regretted that he could not show the cache of gold; somebody had lost the key to the chamber. The Americans obligingly blew out the wall. And there was the gold, each 25-lb. bar wrapped in a sack, each sack tagged: "Reichsbank." There were sacks of gold coin...
Silently the opium gatherers moved among the flowers, sometimes hidden from sight among the rows of corn. With knives and razors they slashed a "V" in the egg-shaped fruit over the big poppy petals, tapped out drops of white slime into tin cans and paper sacks. If they could...