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Command of this fury was in the hands of a strangely mild aristocrat. General Alexander Papagos, whose thin face and batwing ears bear a striking resemblance to those of Spain's ex-King Alfonso, inherited from one of Greece's first families a gentle education and gentler manners. But he seemed to give his troops both courage and the initiative of which upsets are made...
...London court tall, thin Frederick George Leighton-Morris, 30, who had been rejected for police and fire service because of "groggy heart and wanky lungs," was charged with endangering a church. One night Leighton-Morris heard that an unexploded bomb had fallen into his apartment house. He decided to investigate. "I went up the fire escape and saw the bomb on the floor, so I picked it up and went down the stairs. I was going to dump the damn thing in St. James's Park, but it was very heavy so I put it down to rest...
...house in Hampshire, he knew he was dying, but still he ordered the secret kept. He was too proud to ask for sympathy. He lay in a room whose windows looked out on a grove of larch trees, with placid fields beyond. His wife stayed with him. Occasionally his thin lips curled back from his long, uneven teeth in a grimace of pain. Once a German airman flew over Oldharn Village and dropped a rack of bombs. One fell within 40 yards of where Chamberlain lay and the man who had said "I think it is peace in our time...
...audience enters and the theatre fills with the sweet confusion of an orchestra tuning up, there are no musicians in the pit. As the curtains part, a huge symphony orchestra appears hazily, on the screen. Before it steps a thin, grinning, bald-headed man. He introduces himself as Deems Taylor, welcomes the audience, on behalf of Leopold Stokowski and Walt Disney, to "an entirely new form of entertainment." When he finishes, Leopold Stokowski himself, his back to the audience, steps into the picture, raises his arms, and the great orchestra swirls into Bach's D Minor Toccata and Fugue...
...withheld news of its lateness for several hours. Next morning the San Jose Tribuna printed a scathing editorial, hinted some might have been saved if TACA had reported the missing plane sooner. To make matters worse, TACA's dapper lawyer, Jean La Baron, who constantly puffs on long, thin cigars, was quoted by Costa Rican newsmen as saying: "American Export Airlines has the sympathy and backing of the U. S. Department of State . . . [which] will oppose any effort of Pan American to compete with TACA, now an American company." Costa Rican newspapers began beating drums...