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...Okinawa last week, a Jap shell fragment seriously injured LIFE Photographer W. Eugene Smith, just as he was shooting a final picture for a layout on "A Day with a Front-Line Soldier." Commented Smith, a veteran of 13 Pacific actions and 23 combat bombing missions, at a field hospital afterwards: "I forgot to duck, but I got a good picture of those...
...Spring Jubilee at Kirkland House Saturday evening. It is not the complete list, since many ticket purchasers had not yet turned in the names of their dates at press time last night. Arthur C. McGill '48 chairman of the Jubilee Committee, admitted that this list was only a fragment...
...meteor, or fragment, which hits the earth as a solid body is called a meteorite; one which explodes in the air, a bolide...
Died. Technical Sergeant Torger Tokle, 25, towheaded, Norwegian-born ski-jump champion of the Western Hemisphere (289 feet), ex-Brooklyn carpenter; from German shell-fragment wounds; near Monte Torraccio, Italy, as his loth Mountain Infantry Division made a four-mile advance...
...James Joyce has hitherto been noted chiefly for her comment after reading Ulysses: "I guess the man's a genius, but what a dirty mind he has, surely!" Now Joyce's admirers find themselves deeply indebted to this quiet, unpublicized woman for Stephen Hero, a fragment of the first draft of Joyce's autobiographical A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. After it had been rejected by 20 different publishers, Joyce flung the 914-page manuscript into the fire. Mrs. Joyce risked her own skin to retrieve pages 519-902, now owned by the Harvard...