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...mooching along in company with two landing craft (infantry and tanks) some 30 miles south of Empress Augusta Bay. One of the PT's three engines had burned out, but she could still keep up with her consorts. A gorgeous sunset was draining from the clouds and twilight was closing in. As TIME Correspondent William Chickering later got the story...
Combat and life on Bougainville were rugged; the Japs were on the island in force, frantically building new airfields and resisting every U.S. effort to widen the beachheads on Empress Augusta Bay. Said a Marine sergeant...
Pageantry, Paganism, Piety. The Apostle is packed with realistic resuscitations of First-Century life in the Roman Empire, elaborately drawn portraits of famed pagans (Emperor Caligula, Empress Poppaea, Philosopher-Statesman Seneca), vivid descriptions of the burning of Rome, Nero's persecutions, the mystery cults and the worship of Diana...
Austria-Hungary's handsome, exiled Empress Zita turned up in Washington the day after the Moscow Declarations were announced. There her eldest son, Otto Habsburg, pretender to the 25-years-gone Austro-Hungarian thrones and sponsor last year of the abortive Austrian Battalion (29 voluntary recruits), announced importantly that he was ready for anything, might be back in Vienna within a matter of months. Said one Austrian exile: "In America, Otto may still be a question; in Europe, he certainly...
Word went round Edinburgh like fire: the ships with exchanged prisoners would discharge in the Firth of Forth next day. Edinburgh lined up six deep along the Leith waterfront. Offshore, in the rare sun of a late October morning, the Empress of Russia and the Drottningholm (the men called her the Trotting Home) began transferring their racked and crippled cargoes to tenders...