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...Sergeant Major George Gristock's company was caught by the fire of a machine-gun nest pushed forward against its position on the Scheldt River (Belgium). Gristock went up alone under heavy fire and, though shot in both legs, wiped out the machine-gun crew at 20 yards with his automatic rifle. He did not return...
...rating and emoluments ($114 per month, with allowances) of second-class seamen, U. S. Navy. They slept in double-decker beds, jammed to gether in the neat, small Naval Air Reserve Station at Brooklyn's Floyd Bennett Airport. They stepped to the commands of a leathery Marine Corps sergeant. They scrubbed, greased, cranked, shoved, other wise manhandled a yellow Navy training plane, performed such other menial tasks as their sergeant required...
...night off. In northern New York, where 82,000 are in camp, saloons were not well attended. Most soldiers headed for soda fountains, fought their way through such concoctions as "General Drum Specials" (marshmallow sundaes) and "First Army Maneuvers Splits." This behavior was too much for an old Army sergeant, who groused to the New York Times: "Yes, and they all carry miniature cameras...
...late-4:19 p.m.-before Prime Minister Churchill retired at the end of the question period. He had put the House of Commons in a gay mood by his deft handling of tricky questions. As the speaker left the chair, the sergeant at arms, dressed in court black, advanced solemnly up the aisle, removed the mace from the table, and set it in the bracket underneath. This put the House "in committee of the Whole House," ready to consider any bill concerned with money...
...subsidiaries, earns for North American about $6,000,000 a year. Across the street from Union Electric on Twelfth Boulevard stands the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the great Pulitzer newspaper whose mission is policing the community. P-D's public-utility reporter, a thin-haired A. E. F. sergeant named Sam Shelton, had long been convinced that Union Electric was buying politicians. Two years ago he got a break when Union Electric's moose-tall aristocratic president Louis H. Egan eased out a vice president named Oscar Funk. Funk, who had handled Union Electric's expense accounts...