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Vermonters are used to hearing people talk through their noses, but they hate to hear people talk through their hats. Last week Vermonters in the State capital, Montpelier, thought they were hearing just that kind of phony talk. The U.S. Navy, having named a light cruiser after the city, rather expected that (according to longstanding Navy custom) Montpelier would buy a silver service for the ship's wardroom. That little gesture would set back the 8,000 Yankee citizens of Montpelier...
...many men the Jap had lost is not known. But he had lost the services of a small fleet of ships-seven in all-a light cruiser, four destroyers, a gunboat and a submarine. Some, including the cruiser, were sunk, the others crippled by gunfire and bomb. In the air, the pilots of VMF-211's single-seaters had also knocked down five Jap bombers...
...came before the next dawn: "Dec. 11, 5 a.m. landing attempt by twelve Jap ships, including light cruisers, destroyers, gunboats, two troop or supply ships. Jap casualties: one light cruiser, two destroyers, one gunboat, two bombers...
...midnight on Dec. 15 the cruiser's announcer system warned: 'First degree readiness heavy armament.' ... I ran to the commander's cabin and informed the Reuters Naval correspondent, Alexander Massy Anderson...
...malaria. He had come through the jungles from Bangkok, outwitted the Japs who arrested him as a spy on the Thailand-Burma border. > A.P.'s 34-year-old Larry Allen, now back with the British Mediterranean fleet, turned in his masterpiece with the story of the torpedoed British cruiser Galatea, which he survived by a near-miracle on Dec. 16. > From Free China U.P.'s Karl Eskelund, lean, bumptious Far Eastern veteran, sent out the first report of what happened to U.S. and British newsmen in Shanghai. Correspondent Eskelund and his pretty Chinese wife Paula slipped...