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Other surrealists whose pictures attracted crowds were Chilean-born Matta Echaurren, a specialist in vaguely visceral abstractions, and Leon Kelly, a U.S.-born newcomer, who had been painting odd dreams in Paris and Philadelphia for years, but had waited a long time to show them in broad daylight. Drawn with the care of an Italian Renaissance master, Kelly's tenuous vistas had a quietly horrifying aspect...
...order gunfire. His 4-inchers blazed. The Japanese began to fire from armed merchantmen and destroyers. But it was much too late. Only four U.S. sailors were wounded when Desdiv 59, blacked out and wondering just how much damage it had done, bore south through the Strait again. When daylight came, the division looked forward to its leading ship, saw that Talbot had run up the signal that Navy men prize most...
...Atlantic Fleet could concentrate on the farther reaches. Kas are blimps, nonrigid airships, capable of patrolling an area of 2,000 square miles of ocean every twelve hours. When the U.S. gets enough blimps nosing out of bases up & down the Atlantic Coast, no submarine will dare venture in daylight within blimp-range along the entire coast. The U.S. Navy, never a small operator, planned a total of 48 blimps as a starter-six to a squadron, based on both coasts-and the production program was humping...
...Field Marshal. The four boats should have met before dawn, then hidden near the shore until the next night. But the Q-boats had taken a beating since Dec. 7 and their tired engines could not do their rated 39 knots. The two parties had to risk a daylight voyage and did not meet until nearly noon...
...lights were like Coney Island. It was lit up like daylight all along the beach. With all the lights of -* behind us, they could see us easily. That submarine was right there, waiting for the first boat to come along. We're going to lose boats every day if they don't do something about...