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Many-sided Thomas Jefferson, like his contemporary Benjamin Franklin, forever suggests Renaissance man. New acquaintances will be dumfounded by the scope of his interests: science, music, horticulture, architecture, belles-lettres, astronomy, etc. But readers in the ominous glare of World War II are bound to be most absorbed by the most famous spokesman of American democracy when he speaks on his most famous subject...
Vice Admiral Kaneo Sunagawa, just back from the fronts, advanced fearfully into the outer chamber. It was 10 a.m. The glare in the eyes of the Vice Admiral grew unbearably, for His Imperial Majesty the Emperor Hirohito had generously entered. His Majesty expressed words of excruciating praise for Vice Admiral Sunagawa's victories at sea. The Vice Admiral was then admitted into the inner chamber, where he had a divine audience with Her Imperial Majesty the Empress. Their Majesties bestowed on Vice Admiral Sunagawa a crested cup and an unmentionably sacred sum of money. The Vice Admiral retired...
...rolled up his shirt sleeve with a flourish as he entered the small, very white room. When his eyes got used to the glare from the gleaming walls, Vag saw what he knew he should have expected, but hadn't. He counted them, five women lying on their backs on what looked like operating tables. He gaped at the black, serpentine rubber pipes that seemed to have risen out of small bottles and attached themselves to the women's arms. He watched intently as the red stuff seeped into the bottles...
...Germans on the docks watched while some ships which did not blow up immediately were raked with gunfire from other vessels. They saw some which had slipped their moorings make for the harbor entrance; at least one blew up there on the German mines.* In the glare of explosions and searchlights the Germans saw the French masters, at rigid attention on their bridges, saluting the Tricolor as they went down...
Some of the islands have no vegetation worth mentioning, and what few palms and bushes there are were planted in soil that was shipped in. Otherwise, all is coral -white, brilliant, mean. The glare from this whiteness probably would drive men mad in time. That is why the defenders of the coral atolls can expect to be relieved after perhaps a year. (A Naval officer noticed three of his tough marines playing marbles one day. Another was flapping his arms, playing airplane. The marines were beginning to crack after 18 long months of close confinement. By now they have been...