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Wags in the Pacific, only a little more enlightened by last week's air command changes, looked at the overall setup, cracked: "Spaatz will fly to Japan, Nimitz will swim and MacArthur will walk...
Moments as strange as this, in which the proceedings are questionable, make the flesh crawl; while the picture's flat actualities, in which truth appears unquestionable, make the head swim and the stomach turn...
...long after four boatloads of guilt-stricken Nazis had fled to the eastern end of the lake, where they could duck into the Alpine bastion. A few frantic latecomers, who reached the dock just as the last boat was pulling out, jumped into the water and tried to swim after...
...money is no good anyway. We will all draw the same rations, all do our share of work, all draw the same kind and amount of clothing-gradually then perhaps we will be able to rebuild our cities, industries, what we need to live. But it makes my head swim...
...floated on a board past the ancient German city of Regensburg. "Ja, das ist ein schönes Schwein!" wailed the hungry, war-worn customers. Even the portly mayor of Regensburg forgot his civic dignity, flopped on his belly, and lost his umbrella trying to hook the pig. "Swim after it, drag it ashore-and report to me!" roared Nazi Gauleiter Stoltz. But the pig was deaf to Hitlerism. It only stepped ashore ("as one coming home from a casual . . . voyage") when the board grounded on a tiny, sandy island in mid-Danube. Old Anton Fischer, who lived...