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...last request of nature-loving Swithin, 9th-Century Bishop of Winchester, was for burial under the eaves of his church, where footsteps and raindrops would fall on his humble grave. A century later the clergy, having erected a new edifice, decided to move him indoors. One legend says this so infuriated St. Swithin that it rained for 40 days after...
...could concentrate on a much richer field-Samarinda, 36 miles away. With his 9th Division's firm hold on Tarakan and Brunei in the north (TIME, July 9), Morshead and his men, strategically at least, had secured Borneo for the Allies...
...last December when the fliers heard about Jimmy. They investigated, and Jimmy's mother said that he could go back with them to visit the 9th Air Force. There, sandy-haired Jimmy played the Grieg Concerto, and his own impressions of how the blitz sounded in 1940 (when he was five years...
...first to find their way to Picasso's huge, messy duplex studio at No. 7 rue des Grands Augustins were two cherubic-looking 9th Air Force sergeants. French phrase books clutched in their hands, Gerland Gildner and Eugene van Sant clattered in with a musette bag full of gifts. They dumped their presents happily onto a canvas which lay on the table - a Paris street scene which would probably later sell for 150,000 francs...
Aside from the spongy swamps, thick jungles and steaming heat, it was a walk over for the "rats of Tobruk"-Australia's 9th Division. The Japanese, as usual, left only rearguards around the beach, and pulled back into the mountains and jungles with 2,000 to 5,000 troops. On the first day the Aussies found only 61 enemy dead and took one prisoner; they lost not a single man in the landing...