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Colonel Frederick L. Devereux,* Director of Civilian Protection in New York's Westchester County, last week suggested a cure for the playful spirit with which many U.S. citizens meet blackouts. He pointed out that during blackouts people who take them seriously often feel "that some great cosmic thing was about to happen, as though creation were about to occur and a new world were to be born." Said he: "I suggest that while the protective forces are on the physical alert all other residents of Westchester declare a spiritual alert between the warning siren and the all-clear signal...
...Colonel Devereux was confident that "praying will take playfulness out of blackouts...
...officers of Wake were at work, too-jockey-sized, balding Major Jimmie Devereux, the commander; lean-hipped Major Paul Albert Putnam, commander of the fighter squadron; Major Walter Lewis John Bayler, temporary supervisor of Wake's air base (who was to be taken off Wake, presumably to report on weapons, tactics...
...kept coming. And the Marines kept fighting. The Jap at last got his landing party on the beach. From Wake came the last chirp of the radio-the Marines were still fighting. It must have been hand to hand. Reported Major Devereux with magnificent euphemism: "The issue is in doubt." The rest was silence...
From Tokyo next day came an announcement : Wake was taken; it had been defended by 3,000 officers and men. To Jimmie Devereux-whom his civilian friends knew as an affable gentleman jockey, whom Marines knew as a studious, hard-fighting professional-and to the 378 Marines, alive and dead, of his command, the Jap had paid a fitting tribute...