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...Hopkins, besides being the one real Roosevelt confidant, holds a dazzling combination of official posts. Ill but indefatigable, he works in snatches over long hours, drops for occasional catnaps in odd places. His coworkers-who are almost always hero-worshipers-credit him with a whopping memory and a steel-trap mind...
...Stockholm report that Allied attackers were broadcasting their own warnings of the targets they were about to attack was apparently unfounded-perhaps German propaganda to make raiders think their operational plans are leaking out, and that they may fly into a Luftwaffe trap. † A last-season New York hit in an English version. Rosalinda...
...workers of a construction company, headed by John Payne, sustain heavy losses of men while building a Navy strip on a Pacific island which is attacked twice by the Japanese. An ambush designed to trap the Japanese fails of success because of the blundering of Payne, who leads his men--armed only with rifles and riding bulldozers and steam rollers--into the teeth of the landing force. Later he redeems himself by saving the island from a second attack. The whole affair makes the necessity of having an armed construction corps apparent to Washington, and the Seabees (tarantara) are organized...
Redoubtable Rubbish. But Canudos was a trap. "Canudos invited attacks . . but when the invaders, drunken with a feeling of victory, began separating and scattering out down the winding lanes, it then had a means of defense that was at once amazing and tremendously effective. In the somber story of cities taken by storm, this humble village must stand out as an extraordinary and a tragic instance. Intact, it was very weak indeed; reduced to a rubbish heap, it was redoubtable...
...Moreira Cesar's artillery opened up, the church bell began ringing, "summoning the faithful to battle." As his troops swept into the trap, he was wounded in the abdomen. "It is nothing," he said. Another bullet struck him. By nightfall the army was panic-stricken...