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...firing lines and not just visiting them. Of nearly 30 American chaplains, every one has been near falling bombs or whizzing bullets or found what it means when the enemy has continual air superiority. Many is the chaplain, dodging dive-bombers, who has gotten up waving his fist at the unopposed Nip flyers. Chaplains are doing everything, from holding services in the jungles right behind the lines to helping men make out wills, insurance and writing letters, from hearing confessions and giving out Bibles to carrying dead and wounded under fire. Baptist Chaplain Lieut. Robert P. Taylor of Texas gave...
...records of some 1,500 of the world's prizefighters, the measurements of 32 famed heavyweights, the odds on every heavyweight championship bout from Sullivan-Corbett to Louis-Nova, a detailed explanation of the financial deal on the Johnson-Jeffries fight, and many another fist fact. Samples...
...Holyoke, was appointed to the task of organizing youth. Other lady colleagues moved in. Mrs. Henry Morgenthau Jr., perched next to Mrs. Roosevelt, mysteriously shuffled papers, kept mum. The Little Flower flapped his wings, screeched orders, left behind many a moist hanky clenched in an angry fist...
...supplies for his Philippine Army. In his air-conditioned, penthouse apartment he gave fervid interviews to visiting newsmen, telling them how tough was his Philippine Army. He would stride back & forth across his room, purpling the air with oratory, punctuated by invocations of God and the flag, pounding his fist in his palm, swinging his arms in great sweeping gestures. Blond, burly John Gunther, master of the technique of sit-'em -in -the -chair -and -pace -'em -to-death interviewing, met Field Marshal Mac-Arthur, wound up limp in his seat while MacArthur paced roaring on. Always...
Anti-aircraft barrages also knock out unwary civilians. The fragments that rain down after a blast range from-steel splinters as small as a fingernail to hunks as big as a fist. They are lethal if they land spang on an unhelmeted head, but usually cause only minor injuries. Out of every hundred civilians struck by anti-aircraft shrapnel in the British Isles, where 750,000 men & women are engaged in anti aircraft defense, only one is killed; flying glass is much more dangerous...