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enlisted (записался) and fought (бился; to fight) over the Pacific Ocean.
He became a Captain and won medals. In 1944 his picture was printed in Life
magazine with a photo layout of his deeds ("с фотографическим изображением"
его деяний = подвигов; layout - планировка, расположение; выставка, показ).
A friend had shown Don Corleone the magazine (his family did not dare (не
осмеливалась)), and the Don had grunted disdainfully (крякнул презрительно;
to grunt - хрюкать; ворчать, мычать; disdain [d?s'de?n] - презрение,
пренебрежение) and said, "He performs those miracles for strangers
(выполняет те чудеса для чужаков, иностранцев; miracle ['m?r?kl])."
6 When Michael Corleone was discharged (демобилизован) early in 1945
to recover (чтобы поправиться, прийти в себя; to recover [r?'k(v?] - вновь
обретать; прийти в себя; выздороветь) from a disabling wound (от раны,
мешающей ему продолжать службу; to disable - делать неспособным,
непригодным), he had no idea that his father had arranged his release
(устроил его освобождение). He stayed home for a few weeks, then, without
consulting anyone, entered Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, and
so he left his father's house. To return for the wedding of his sister and
to show his own future wife to them, the washed-out rag of an American girl
(бесцветную американку: the washed-out rag - застиранная тряпка).

1 The third son, Michael Corleone, did not stand with his father and
his two brothers but sat at a table in the most secluded corner of the
garden. But even there he could not escape the attentions of the family
friends.
2 Michael Corleone was the youngest son of the Don and the only child
who had refused the great man's direction. He did not have the heavy,
Cupid-shaped face of the other children, and his jet black hair was
straight rather than curly. His skin was a clear olive-brown that would
have been called beautiful in a girl. He was handsome in a delicate way.
Indeed there had been a time when the Don had worried about his youngest
son's masculinity. A worry that was put to rest when Michael Corleone
became seventeen years old.
3 Now this youngest son sat at a table in the extreme corner of the
garden to proclaim his chosen alienation from father and family. Beside him
sat the American girl everyone had heard about but whom no one had seen
until this day. He had, of course, shown the proper respect and introduced
her to everyone at the wedding, including his family. They were not
impressed with her. She was too thin, she was too fair, her face was too
sharply intelligent for a woman, her manner too free for a maiden. Her
name, too, was outlandish to their ears; she called herself Kay Adams. If
she had told them that her family had settled in America two hundred years
ago and her name was a common one, they would have shrugged.
4 Every guest noticed that the Don paid no particular attention to
this third son. Michael had been his favorite before the war and obviously
the chosen heir to run the family business when the proper moment came. He
had all the quiet force and intelligence of his great father, the born
instinct to act in such a way that men had no recourse but to respect him.
But when World War II broke out, Michael Corleone volunteered for the
Marine Corps. He defied his father's express command when he did so.
5 Don Corleone had no desire, no intention, of letting his youngest