Word: 21st
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Russell Reading Braddon, an artillery gunner with Australia's 8th Division, spent his 21st birthday with both feet in a grave. It was early 1942, and he had been captured by the Japanese as they slithered through Malaya like lizards, chewing up the paper-thin defenses of Britain's "naked island" fortress, Singapore. Singapore fell, but Gunner Braddon lived, not to fight but to write another day. The result is a gutty, scalp-raising account of the "war of capitulation" in Southeast Asia, and the best book of its kind since F. Spencer Chapman's The Jungle...
Born. To John George Chetwynd-Talbot, 38, the 21st Earl of Shrewsbury, and Lady Shrewsbury, 39: their fifth child, first son and thus heir, since the title and estate (a castled 8,000 acres) descend through the male line; in Stafford, England. Weight...
...freedom any more than he can live without religion. "And if freedom is suppressed on the material plane, it will break out on the spiritual plane . . . The 19th century movement in the Western world which replaced religion by technology as the center of interest will be reversed in the 21st century by a countermovement in which mankind will turn back from technology to religion...
...rated Michigan State had its hands full subduing hopped-up Purdue, 14-7, for its 21st straight victory. An alert goal-line pass interception by State Linebacker Doug Weaver, with three minutes to go, saved a possible tie. Purdue, now twice beaten (Notre Dame was the other winner), is still top dog in the Big Ten. An Illinois upset of Michigan, 22-13, may have smoothed Purdue's Rose Bowl-bound path...
Brown's heavily favored Walt Molineaux finished 21st after getting a stitch in the last mile. Molineaux has won against the varsity for the past two years...