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...SERGEANT JOHN BRIDWELL...
...save their voices, the Southern Senators changed their tactics: they stayed away in droves to prevent a quorum. Majority leader Alben W. Barkley, stubbornly determined to get action, got the Senate to order the arrest of eight missing members who were known to be in Washington. The sergeant at arms' staff routed Nevada's Senator Berkeley L. Bunker out of his office by using a passkey, captured Tennessee's Kenneth McKellar by inducing a chambermaid to unlock his hotel apartment. South Carolina's Senator Burnet R. Maybank, reached at his home by telephone, agreed to come...
...bomber's pilot, Captain William T. Cherry Jr. The Navy searched even harder. Next day the good news came: Rickenbacker and two of his crew were found floating in the vast Pacific some 600 miles north of Samoa. Three other crew members were on a tiny island. One, Sergeant Alexander Kaczmarczyk of Torrington, Conn., had died and been buried...
...Lieut. Doolittle, waving his shavetails, bawled out an old sergeant. The sergeant saluted, said: "Sir, if I may say so, I served with your father, and what a gentleman he was!" Lieut. Jimmy later reported this incident to his father and asked: "Damn it, Pappy, what could...
They went about their business as ineptly as a gang of urchins playing cops & robbers. They asked a police sergeant to show them the Premier's private apartments. He refused. The young men got lost in the echoing hallways. A group of three or four other men appeared; the young officers fired in their general direction; the men fled. Some one heard a key turning in a keyhole. Part of the group stormed the door, broke it down, and came on the Prime Minister, a tiny, alert man of 75, and his daughter-in-law, holding a baby...