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Worst sufferer was the heavy cruiser Pittsburgh, a 13,000-ton yearling. Her bow began to quiver under the buffeting of mountainous seas; the forward compartments were cleared of men, and just in time. A huge wave threw her 10° to 15° off her course; the next tore off 104 feet...
There is the blood-red flag with the black double-headed German eagle that Photographer Bob Landry tore from the wall of Gestapo Headquarters in Gela, Sicily (it might have cost him his life; he found out later that two British officers were killed by a booby trap in that room). There is the Japanese flag a Marine Corps sergeant who graduated from the MARCH OF TIME'S School for Combat Photographers sent us after the battle for Hill 660 on Cape Gloucester (scribbled all around the Rising Sun are good wishes from the friends...
National holiday or no, banks and stores stayed open in Vicksburg. Firecrackers never popped, skyrockets never tore the night sky. Instead, the story of the black day was passed on from fathers to children, who could see the cannon balls imbedded in Vicksburg's old courthouse. These bitter memories persisted...
...Imogene's instant aid had rushed her father, J. O. Dumas, veteran Texas police officer. Father Dumas drawled sadly: "Her mother is all tore up about this...
Ernest Hemingway, who tore his scalp open (52 stitches) in an auto crash in Britain last year, fared better when his car skidded on a wet curve outside Havana, piled up in a ditch. Added to the rich Hemingway collection of nicks. lumps, and bruises†: forehead scratches and a sore knee...