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...alerted his men against surprise Jap paratroop attacks with the stern words: "The best goddam way for a Jap to commit suicide is to land near a cavalry unit or otherwise horse around with a cavalry unit." The outfit seized Tacloban, later fought next to the veteran 32nd ("Red Arrow") in the bloody, muddy Ormoc pincers operation...
Until now, Allied arrows of invasion in the Pacific have headed inevitably (if sometimes deviously) toward Japan. Last week, at the bottom of the Allied line of attack, Australians jabbed a small but significant arrow away from Japan and straight toward the Japs' stolen empire. Landing on the swampy, oil-rich island of Tarakan off Borneo's northeast coast, Aussie troops drove the Japanese off an airstrip. Soon Allied planes would be using it to work over the South China Sea, Borneo and The Netherlands East Indies...
...light, portable sound locator for spotting enemy guns. Using a directional microphone, 'the device instantly calculates the position of a firing gun and marks the location by means of an arrow on a cathode ray screen (as in television...
...left the staff some years ago to become a free-lance contributor. Because of his dim sight (one eye was ruined when, in boyhood, his brother accidentally shot an arrow into it) he has written comparatively little in the last two or three years. He is forced to draw on huge sheets of paper, wearing special glasses (see cut). His last big writing job was a play, The Male Animal, done in 1940 with Elliot Nugent. From time to time, he shows up at the New Yorker offices, to stand in the corridors and shout "Nuts!" He still tells friends...
...another thing, Blackouts never stays put. Performers improvise to their hearts' content, while the show itself has been changed 77 times. It has boasted a man who imitates phonograph records, a Chinese comic, a drum-majorette, a gorilla, an elderly lady acrobat; it has auditioned a bow-&-arrow champion, a camel, and a skunk. Of the original cast, only Murray and Marie Wilson have not dropped...