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Occasionally, a Thurber Male copes with dreadful reality by fleeing from it. Walter Mitty (The Secret Life of Walter Mitty) is, in his escape, the dauntless Commander Mitty ("Throw on the power lights! Rev her up to 8,500! We're going through!"). He is also the world-famed Dr. Mitty, taking over the crucial operation when other specialists are baffled, and the Defendant Mitty who is afraid of nobody...
...Dauntless, a converted steam yacht formerly named the Delphine, after the late owner, Mrs. Delphine Dodge. Usually tied up in the Anacostia River, it provides Admiral King with living quarters...
Winston Churchill, Man of 1940, had also been a symbol. In Britain's darkest and finest hour, his flaming words and dauntless courage had heartened his country to stand alone against Hitler at the crest of his Blitzkrieg power. As one of the organizers of victory, Churchill had been magnificent. Now in the last weeks of 1944, he was facing-with his usual truculence-the heaviest criticism of his World War II career; his critics charged him with responsibility for the civil war in Greece and for selling out Poland to Russia...
...Driver's Seat. First B-29 off the ground for the first Tokyo strike was Dauntless Dottie, piloted by Major Robert K. Morgan, onetime skipper of the famed B-17 Memphis Belle. Riding with him was the task-force commander, 38-year-old Brigadier General Emmett ("Rosie") O'Donnell Jr., a veteran of the long, bitter delaying action early in the war when a handful of U.S. airmen fought and fell back from the Philippines to Java to Australia...
...marines have come to expect almost anything in the way of self-destruction from Japanese soldiers. They have read the story, in Japanese newspapers, of the "dauntless courage of Captain Yamazaki"-in the seventh paragraph it is revealed that Captain Yamazaki's courage consisted in destroying himself. But none were prepared for this epic self-slaughter among civilians. More than one U.S. fighting man was killed trying to rescue a Jap from his wanton suicide...