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...Navy told a story of another brave ship. The light cruiser Santa Fe had not been hit at all, but she had been in the thick of almost every fight since the Aleutians. Before she finally was sent back for an overhaul, the Santa Fe spent 25 months in the Pacific. "I'd hate to see us get hit," said a junior officer after 16 months aboard, "but a lot of us sure would like to get home...
...Bastille Day (July 14) the French Government made a revolutionary announcement: the guillotine, which like military conscription, is one of the fruits of the French Revolution, is about to go the way of the auto-da-fe as an instrument of human justice. Henceforth condemned Frenchmen will not have to lie down and bare their necks to the falling knife; they may, as soon as transportation and the French electric-power shortage permit, sit down in a shiny new, U.S.-made electric chair...
Their best cave-and-pillbox defense lines were cut through. On Luzon last week they lost their grip on Manila's water supply system when 38th Division troops captured Wawa Dam intact. Santa Fe fell, though some 30,000 enemy troops stood ready to fight it out on the fertile floor of the Cagayan Valley. On Mindanao Jap units were being driven back into the unexplored mountain jungles east of the Sayre Highway...
Other living Kinsolving clergymen: Cousins Arthur Lee ("Little Tui"), popular youth leader and rector of Trinity Church, Princeton, N.J.; Charles J., rector of the Church of the Holy Faith, Santa Fe, N. Mex.; Walter Ovid, rector of Calvary Church, Summit, N.J.; Uncles Wythe L. and Arthur B., retired...
...sure don't be de dype to seddle down in a hole like dis," said the Norwegian skipper gloomily as he watched pert, young Santa Fe Schoolteacher Helen Wheaton get ready to clamber over the side of his dinky schooner in Atka Harbor. As she said goodbye to the skipper and boarded the bobbing dory in which her bridegroom waited with open arms, Helen was thinking much the same thing...