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...Lloyd McKim Garrison Prize of $170 and a silver medal, for the best poem on any subject, was won by F. Gar- ner Ranney '42, of London, England, for his elegy "Nisi Dominus, Frustra...
...Bahamian natives had rioted down Nassau's swank Bay Street, smashing shop windows, helping themselves to expensive liquors, French perfumes, fine English fabrics. Said one excited spectator: "It was just like Pearl Harbor-it came so suddenly." Panicky merchants lowered their hurricane shutters and the British garrison police bore down on the mob. There was wild street fighting. Three of the rioters were killed, 40 arrested. The mob gradually retreated, with its stolen liquor, to native Grant's Town. But peace was not restored until the Duke returned and promised that something would be done about his problem...
...ammunition was about gone, the food had run out. The wounded, crowded into the catacombs of The Rock, cried out for help that no one could give. Malaria had seized the garrison; gaunt cannoneers, flushed with fever, stood at their stations beside pieces that had to be served with telltale economy...
...Australia, where a few of Corregidor's old garrison were leading a new fight, The Rock's fall struck deep, even though, like the fall of Bataan, it had been inevitable. Officers there thought not of the troops the Jap could now free for other areas, not of Manila's fine harbor, now open for a Jap base. They thought of the cheerful, undaunted soldiers they had left behind. Wrote Douglas MacArthur...
...reason why last year's assault on Leningrad failed. Only 21 German divisions were used along a 200-mile front. If supply roads have been improved sufficiently this winter, Hitler might try to throw in enough more men and machines to crack Leningrad defenses despite its strong garrison and hard-fighting citizen army...