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...modern Marine Corps, in its essential might, is a rigorously trained, rigorously disciplined, self-contained striking force. It is naval infantry by tradition; Marines still call a dugout's dirt floor a "deck," speak, even in deserts and mountains, of "coming aboard" and "breaking out" flags. But in the last analysis it is subject to a President's call for service anywhere, by any available transport. In 1952 the Marine Corps once more has foot soldiers enough-and the planes, tanks and artillery to support them-to think of itself without doubt or qualification as the nation...
...drainage project dropped the water level in the shallow lake and 112 more islands popped into sight. None was more than 100 ft. in diameter and not until last month did any seem worthy of attention. Then the Resident Works Engineer stumbled on the remains of a Stone Age dugout canoe. Immediately he sent for Joseph Raftery, Keeper of Irish Antiquities at Dublin's National Museum...
...stone ferried from the mainland by men of the New Stone Age and Late Bronze Age. Covered with a lattice of logs, they made a sturdy foundation for the lake dwellers' homes. In the peaty soil that now covers the crannogs, Raftery and his assistant have uncovered 17 dugout canoes beautifully hollowed from the solid trunks of great oaks. They have also found shards of undecorated pottery, axheads, a dagger, a chisel and other tools. They have dug up bronze ornaments, fragments of a Bronze Age trumpet and some well-preserved saddle querns, the primitive hand mills with which...
Rookie Outfielder Roy Hobbs could not have stumbled into the New York Knights' dugout at a worse time. Manager Pop Fisher was screaming mad, and with reason. The Knights were mired in the cellar, they had forgotten how to hit, their best pitcher had just blown up. Things were so tough that Pop had athlete's foot on his hands. When Roy reported, a big, 34-year-old semipro from the sticks with a bassoon case in his hands, Pop sneered: "Oh, my eight-foot uncle, what have we got here, the Salvation Army band?" Said...
...went out on an easy fly to centerfield. The final batter worked Erskine to a full 3-ball, 2-strike count before meekly grounding out. First-Base Umpire Bill Stewart had hardly made his dramatic thumb-up "out" gesture before the whole Dodger team poured out from diamond and dugout to crowd around grinning Carl Erskine and cheer the most sparkling pitching performance Ebbets Field had ever seen...