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Married. Colonel James Patrick Sinnott Devereux, U.S.M.C., 43, pint-sized hero of Wake Island, who dryly denies that he ever radioed "Send us more Japs"; and Rachel Clarke Cooke, thirty-fiveish, ex-Junior Leaguer; he for the second time (his first wife died while he was in prison camp), she for the first; in Baltimore...
Nicholas Edward Devereux...
...Absolute Rulers of England), believes that historians have tended to neglect or forget Robert Dudley's vital role in English history. He believes that too much romantic limelight has been thrown on the young man who succeeded Dudley as the Queen's "most overwritten favorite"-Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex. Elizabeth and Leicester reads like a prim rebuke to Lytton Strachey's witty, popular Elizabeth and Essex...
...tense days of World War II, when the U.S. people had little to hearten them, they eagerly grasped at two legends: 1) Captain Colin Kelly had sunk the Jap battleship Haruna by plunging his Flying Fortress "almost into the mouths of flaming Japanese guns"; 2) Major James P. S. Devereux, when asked if his handful of embattled Wake Island marines needed help, radioed: "Send us more Japs...
Last week "Jimmie" Devereux, rescued at long last from a Jap prison on Hokkaido Island, anxiously sought to set his record straight. He had never asked for more Japs. Said he, dryly: "We had more than we could handle right then and there...