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...battle, nor kill himself. Instead, he would gather a picked staff of Nazi Party chieftains. Wehrmacht generals and technical geniuses, then lead them in a giant submarine flotilla to Japan. There he would establish his German Government in Exile, boost Nipponese production to undreamed-of levels, and string out the war a few more years.* In due time, if all went well, the Allies would fall to fighting among themselves, their power would disintegrate, and Hitler would return for the triumphant reconquest of Europe...
...Nelson, WPB began to look like a second-string, errand-running organization. Who was in charge of WPB and U.S. war production-if anything was left of WPB after the general exodus? Was Donald Nelson still the boss? Or was OWM Czar Jimmy Byrnes? Or Elder Statesman Bernie Baruch? Or the President himself...
...another occasion, the General was asked to loan his personal Catalina flying boat to help PT boats flush a covey of Jap ships. Geiger first refused ("Got it filled full of holes the last time you fellows flew around out there"), finally gave in. But there was a string attached. He insisted on going along as copilot...
...place, Bill Henry will play left halfback, a post at which he has seen almost as much action and has been passing more effectively. George O'Day and Tow Ellis are the second-string fullback and tailback respectively...
...paper the international gospel of the national game. (Before the war, the News had a sizable circulation in Japan.) He ran complete box scores from 18 leagues, coverage of 21 others, weekly résumés and statistics on every team down through class D. He developed a string of 250 correspondents (the outstanding sportswriter in every city that had a team) and kept them jumping with 1,000-word telegrams and phone calls...