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...late. He and his jungle patrol were wiped out. But last week other Japs who had survived the fight in northern Burma knew more about the Naga raiders and their leader. The half-naked tribesmen from northeastern India were directed by a white woman: pert, pretty Ursula Graham-Bower, 30, an archeology student who looks like a cinemactress...
...Army, lay encamped at Valley Forge, a certain good old Friend, of the respectable family and name of Potts, if I mistake not, had occasion to pass through the woods near headquarters. . . . As he approached the spot with a cautious step, whom should he behold in a dark natural bower of ancient oaks, but the commander in chief of the American Armies on his knees in prayer...
...Louis, he assembled his team of 24 Governors and his right bower, Vice Presidential Nominee John W. Bricker, and put them right to work. If any of the Governors had envisioned his trip to St. Louis as a midsummer junket, full of fun & games, he was sorely disappointed. Candidate Dewey had his class report at 10 a.m. the first day, and the atmosphere was clearly one of Positively No Excuses for Tardiness...
...sent to the Pacific. After the Battle of Midway, he became chief of staff to able Admiral Chester Nimitz, who said earnestly: "Nothing you can say about him would be praise enough." In an office overlooking Pearl Harbor he settled down to being Nimitz's right bower and helping to plan the Pacific...
...London stirred with rumors that Churchill was about to reorganize his command system. Was the up-&-down hero of Libya and Ethiopia, General Sir Archibald Wavell, to be Churchill's military right bower? No one knew. Churchill had never really warmed to Wavell-at least until recently. But Sir Henry Maitland Wilson was Wavell's favorite; the separation of Sir Henry's command from that of General Alexander in Egypt and Syria had long been General Wavell's idea. London expected to hear more of Wavell, and of his plans for close Anglo-American contact with...