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...bravest man-of-the-week on Okinawa-at least to the 77th Infantry Division-was a conscientious objector: Private First Class Desmond T. Doss, 26, Medical Corpsman and Seventh-day Adventist...
Private Doss had planned to spend his Saturday (the Adventist Sabbath) as usual -in prayer and meditation. His commanding officer came to his tent and asked if he would forego the privilege that day; Doss happened to be the only corpsman available to a company scheduled to attack an escarpment. Doss said: "Captain, it is fine with me, but you'll have to wait a few minutes while I read my Bible here...
...burned it. By 1800 all the mutineers but John Adams had either died quietly or been murdered. And for 29 years Adams, brandishing the Bounty's dog-eared Bible, had ruled the island wisely and well. From the U.S., a few years later, had come a Seventh-Day Adventist missionary who converted all the island's inhabitants. Since then, Pitcairners have been prohibitionists; education for children has been compulsory. But strong strains of Tahitian blood and a California climate made Pitcairn's 202 tanned inhabitants easygoing. Few serious crimes were committed, but everyone, within limits, did pretty...
Last week, radio and cable on the Fiji Islands, 2,500 miles south and west of their destination, the Marquesas, began spelling out high adventure's ending. According to the messages, a Seventh-Day Adventist missionary, skirting the jungly, palm-lined shore of Vanua Levu Island in his ketch, had sighted a small, battered craft impaled on a coral reef. On board, to his horror, he found an emaciated woman prostrate and unconscious, another woman and a man both dead. On the stern of the boat was her name: Wing...
...Pledged equal treatment and recognition to all Christian denominations, after a White House visit by Lutheran, Baptist, Seventh-Day Adventist leaders, who came to protest his appointment of a representative to the Papal State (TIME, Jan. 1). To these Mr. Roosevelt outlined, in deepest secrecy, his tentative program for peace proposals. Later, it was learned, the appointment to Rome of Myron C. Taylor may fall through. The President wants to take advantage of the Vatican's unsurpassed diplomatic coverage through world-wide listening posts; the Vatican is not so keen...