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Perverse Innocence. In 1928, Evelyn (pronounced Evil in) Arthur St. John Waugh (rhymes with raw) leaped, like a literary commando, out of nowhere and, establishing a beachhead in that dismal waste land which Poet T. S. Eliot had charted six years before, began to commit merry mayhem on the comic muse...
...dead, three wounded. Beigin boarded the ship, ordered it southward. At midnight the Altalena rammed on to the beach at Tel Aviv for another attempt. When noon came, an assault boat with a few steel-helmeted Irgunists ventured toward the beach, and despite Haganah fire set up a small beachhead. But when Haganah turned mortar fire on the Altalena, and smoke began to pour out amidships, the rest of the Irgunists jumped over the sides, swam for shore...
Invasion. Last month Foges secured a beachhead in the U.S. He reorganized Chanticleer Press, his Manhattan office, as a full-fledged publishing house. Next fall Chanticleer will invade the U.S. market with children's books, nature books, a series on American furniture, silver...
...beach, then, "the guns on point and island opened, many of those back in the ridge, and a mortar barrage so heavy that those who lived through it said it was the worst they had ever seen." By nightfall there were 1,298 dead & wounded Marines, the beachhead was secure and the diary of the Japanese lieutenant, now dead, was being read at Marine headquarters. But almost two months later, a U.S. colonel was killed by a sniper on Peleliu as he stepped from a plane...
...Hersov, to take over New Union with the option to buy part of its best properties. Hersov accepted. In order to get a moratorium from New Union's creditors, he threw the company into "judicial management." By taking over New Union, Hersov gave U.S. financiers a major beachhead in South Africa through a comparatively new company, American Anglo-Transvaal Corp. (TIME...