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...enemy banged hardest at MacArthur's right flank, apparently to grab a toehold on the highway leading south on Bataan's east shore. He was hurled back with heavy losses. Meanwhile he stabbed tentatively through the mountains on the west shore, and near week's end he reported landing seaborne forces on Subic Bay. If he was telling the truth nothing immediately came of it. Douglas MacArthur was able to report that "enemy pressure ... in the Bataan peninsula has lessened...
...Grab Bag. Near Oklahoma City a flock of startled ducks flew into a duck hunter, who grabbed with one hand, bagged a mallard drake alive...
...ammunition-and strike hard before more could come from the mainland. In snatching Davao they were also going after a base, 1,600 miles from Singapore, that could be another link in a chain around the Philippines, through the Mandated Islands, from Tokyo to Singapore. If the Japanese could grab it, while they also set themselves up in North Borneo, they would have a fairly well-protected detour around the submarine-guarded narrows in the South China...
...just stand there and maybe grab my hand and cry. ... I tried to put all those things in Dumbo." Tough little Timothy Q. (for nothing) Mouse, Dumbo's wise-guy protector, was sired in much the same way by impish Artist Fred Moore. Says he: "The greatest problem with Timothy was not to make him too cute. We had to get a tough guy with a big heart. ... I just played around with him . . . had him walk a couple of dozen steps in 12 frames, then in eight . . . until I got just the right cockiness to it. ... When...
...losses the Jap had little to show this week. He had done a decently good job of bombing; he had smashed up some buildings, some airplanes. He had managed to grab a precarious foothold on a beach 260 miles from the center of Luzon's resistance. But the Army's Far Eastern Commander, lean, brilliant Lieut. General Douglas MacArthur, and his grizzled Navy sidekick, Admiral Tommy Hart, had been waiting with their knives...