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...decided to send part of his squadron home, leaving a few ships just in case the other Japanese boats did arrive. And just 20 minutes after the hour the captured officer had named, around the bend came a string of barges, perfect setup for another attack. The Jap had been telling the truth...
...Cherbourg, where the Germans, in their thorough way, had wrecked the breakwater, the 25,000 engineering troops had sunk a string of concrete barges. One of the worst storms the French coast has seen in years washed them ashore. With swift improvisation dozens of emptied Liberty ships were anchored bow to stern, and their sea cocks opened; the scuttled ships formed a new sea wall. A few days after the first ship docked at Cherbourg, the first train pulled out with supplies. By last week, 20 trains were leaving daily. Quays, warehouses and cranes had been installed, oil storage tanks...
Near the town of Boom, in Belgium, the Germans fled across the last bridge still standing over the Rupel River. Rear guards clambered under the bridge, set dynamite charges, began to string a detonating wire to a safe distance, a minute or two away. But they had been seen. A patriot slipped out from his hiding place in the bushes, ducked under the bridge, whittled at the wire with his pocket knife, severed it, scurried away. Moments later British patrols crossed the bridge, heard from Boom's Maquis the story of their hero. He was eleven years...
...first published cartoon was a drawing of a professor gravely examining birds' footprints in the sand, while a fascinated bird followed the strange human track. He produced a mad catalogue of patched-together devices constructed on such engineering principles as this: "The strength of a piece of string, as of a chain, lies in its weakest part, and surely it is wisdom to cut this out and tie in a stronger piece." In 1934 London's Ideal Homes Exhibition included one solemn Robinson exhibit which proved a sensation: a carefully constructed, full-size Robinson house fitted with Robinson...
...past week. Wally Trumbull, Bill Jenkins, Ken Brown, and Walt Coulson have shown the most talent among the prospective booters. Coulson, Freshman baseball star, was moved up to the first squad as an end this week, and thus may follow in the footsteps of the famed Loren MacKinney, first string wingman on the 1940 team, who moved into the backfield to get off 65 yard kicks...