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That was at Port Moresby on the afternoon of Nov. 30, 1942. Bob Eichelberger flew to Buna the next morning and what he found was a jungle Valley Forge. The 32nd Division troops were hungry, ragged, sick and demoralized. Attacks were ordered and never made-in one such "attack" by a regimental combat team, only 150 men got up to the front lines to face the Japanese, while the rest of the 2,000 were allowed to straggle in the rear...
...Dakota girl had won seven of the nine tournaments she entered this year, and she was coolly bent on taking No. 10. In the final, while little Mae made most of the spectacular shots, Beverly Hanson held to her sure, unshowy game, was 4 up after 18. On the 32nd, where Mae topped her brassie shot and recovered for a par 5, methodical Beverly was on the green in 2, putted out for a birdie 4, had the championship...
...Promise. Brack Lee, at 51, is as ruggedly independent an the pioneers who settled in the shadows of the bleak Wasatch range. A 32nd degree Mason and member of no church in predominantly (74%) Mormon Utah, he had defeated Mormon Democrat Herbert Maw in 1948 by promising to run the state just the way he had run his real estate business in the coal-mining town of Price...
...recent decrees devaluating the ruble and reducing prices were signed by Stalin and Malenkov. Last November, on the 32nd anniversary of the October Revolution, Malenkov was orator of the day-an honor accorded to Zhdanov in 1946, to Molotov in 1947 and 1948. On Stalin's 70th birthday, Malenkov's tribute took precedence over Molotov's. More significant perhaps than such fine points of Soviet place are some signs that Beria is an ally of Malenkov. With party and police backing, Malenkov stands at the pivot of Soviet power-for the moment...
Most of the men, joking and waiting for supper, were standing around below decks. Second Class Engine Room Artificer Ed Buckingham was getting congratulations on his 32nd birthday. Navy Yard Surveyor Roy Stevens had just finished shaving. Leading Seaman Fred Henley got his supper early so that he could report for duty. He started up the conning tower to join the Truculent's bearded commander, Lieut. Cyril Philip Bowers (30), and three other young officers. Later Henley described what happened...