Word: 42nd
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there was any doubt that the British were prepared to use force decisively to retake the Falklands, it was dispelled on April 25. At dawn's first light, more than 100 members of M Company, 42nd Commando, of the Royal Marines were landed on remote and mountainous South Georgia Island, a British dependency some 800 miles east of the Falklands. By 6 that evening, Prime Minister Thatcher was able to enjoin Britons to "rejoice, rejoice," as she and Defense Secretary John Nott announced the recapture of their first objective in the South Atlantic without a single British casualty. Fighting...
...other tourists find themselves shipwrecked on the island of the Enu, a very odd little South Pacific island. The men wear nests in their hair, where clever birds roost-"feathered superegos" who do the thinking for the hominoids when problems get knotty. On the head of King IT the 42nd perches the imperial vulture. His Majesty, built like a sumo wrestler, rides in a mobile throne on the back of a 300-year-old sea turtle, painted every color of the rainbow, which carries him at a 1-m.p.h. crawl...
...next four finishers for Harvard were sophomore Andy Gerkin placing 35th with a time of 25:35, freshmen sensations Criss Sheehan (25:47) and Peter Jelley (25:48) placing 41st and 42nd, and senior Ralph Smith coming in 56th with a time...
DIED. Harry Warren, 87, prolific composer of Shuffle Off to Buffalo, Serenade in Blue, September in the Rain, Chattanooga Choo Choo, I Only Have Eyes For You and more than 300 other songs, including the score of the 1933 film musical 42nd Street, now a successful adaptation on Broadway; in Los Angeles. Born Salvatore Guaragna, the son of an Italian immigrant bootmaker in Brooklyn, the musically self-taught Warren worked as a rehearsal pianist and song plugger before publishing his first hits in the 1920s. During the '30s and '40s he wrote the scores for a string...
...book fair in Moscow and a change of venue for the party. The survivors of the ill-fated 1979 gathering who were able to attend joined about 50 other Soviet exiles last week for a dinner of stuffed capon and salade russe in the Trustees Room of the 42nd Street public library in New York City. The publishers created a minifair of their own: a table laden with U.S.-published books by Russian writers who are banned in the U.S.S.R. Said Bernstein: "The pattern of intimidation, of fear, of harsh sentences arbitrarily meted out to Soviet writers, scientists and thinkers...