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...ships were getting hell. One machine-gun battery was blazing all-out at us-and then there was a puff of smoke from a bomb, and no more machine gun. Basye circled the town once more, getting a view of our work. Bombs had dropped, in a first-class string, right down the main street. Japanese machine guns were still firing at us. Basye banked steeply so that every gun in our flight could be trained on the machine-gun batteries, and then we let them have it. A flat, scarlet sheet of flame poured down from every turret, every...
...little old white-haired man at the head table looked embarrassed, his eyebrows arched with a sort of "Ain't this a hell of a thing?" curve. He wore the old familiar black suit, black string tie knotted carelessly in a bow. His hair was neatly plastered down, his spectacles freshly shined...
...last week's birthday concert, six surviving leaguers had written special compositions. They were performed by such topflight artists as Soprano Marjorie Lawrence and the Budapest Quartet. The small audience politely applauded the work of Boston-born Walter Piston (Quintet for Flute and Strings), Brooklyn-born Aaron Copland (Birthday Piece, On Cuban Themes For Two Pianos), French-born Darius Milhaud (string quartet), California-born Frederick Jacobi (songs about the prophet Nehemiah), Czech-born Bohuslav Martinu (Trio for Flute, Violin and Piano). Hit of the evening came at the program's close with Russian-born Louis Gruenberg...
With only five players showing up for the game the Funsters had little to show against the Bunnies reserve strength. High scorer for the Bunnies was Norm Cameron with eight points, while the rest of the tallies were divided pretty evenly among the first and second string forwards...
...magistrate reported clinically on its bumps and grinds.* Then some of the cast took the stand. Said famed Strip-Teaser Margie Hart, wearing woolen underwear beneath a purple ensemble: 'T hold the curtain around me, sort of tease-like." Some of her further guarantees of decorum: a G-string, rubberized stockings, three safety pins, a "victory garden" of two strategically placed flowers...