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...fire also proved his undoing. The fleet, supple, Cro-Magnons-6 ft. tall, weighing 250 Ibs., hunting with arrows and lances, wearing clothing to protect them in winter and painting pictures on their cave walls-grew vexed when they saw Harg's imitation of their golden rooms. "For the first time in the history of the human race on this planet, men were ready to go to war." The Cro-Magnons wiped out Harg's people, one by one, with bow and arrow, usually without a fight...
...Arrow Safety Device Co.: a photoelectric device which will dim headlights automatically when struck by rays from approaching headlights or street lights...
...destruction of the enemy's armed forces. General MacArthur's running score of Japanese corpses counted in the field topped the 50,000 mark; how many others had died on or around the island was not known with certainty. Men of the hard-luck 32nd (Red Arrow) Division were notoriously hard to please, after successive heartbreaks in New Guinea (TIME, Dec. 4), but a colonel said of them last week: "These paddlefeet are feeling mighty pleased with themselves...
...schedule they might be, but MacArthur's troops were still on the track, still rolling in the right direction. Last week on Leyte fresh infantrymen of the 32nd ("Red Arrow") Division (see ARMY & NAVY) cracked the Japanese strong point at Limon, took the town and neatly pulled the plug at the top of the north-south road along which last-ditch Japanese defenders are strung all the way down to Ormoc...
...32nd (Red Arrow Division) started early in 1942, when they were dispatched in haste to reinforce the Allies' faltering Pacific frontier. Behind the 32nd was a good history. It had fought in World War I, where its men had earned from the French the nickname, "Les Terribles." It was made up of National Guard units from Michigan and Wisconsin, draftees, regular officers. It had had some field training, a little tutoring in jungle fighting under simulated conditions in Louisiana. But training in those days was not up to post-Pearl Harbor standards, and the 32nd-though...