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...Chungking the spring dawn was milky when an MP on the graveyard shift picked up the ringing phone in U.S. Army Headquarters. At first he heard no voice on the other end; then a San Francisco broadcast coming over the phone line made clear to him why his informant could find no words. A colonel came in. The MP just stared at him. The colonel stared back. After a moment the MP blurted two words. The colonel's jaw dropped; he hesitated; then without a word he walked away...
Thus last week did riotous, rowdy Lupe Velez, dead by her own hand (TIME, Dec.25), find a resting place in Mexico City's Graveyard of Sorrows beside another recent suicide, Singer Lucha Reyes...
...shepherded by an Australian squadron and MacArthur's own Seventh Fleet, reinforced with jeep carriers from Admiral Chester Nimitz' vast armada of seagoing airdromes. On the horizon loomed the majestic battleships of Admiral Wil liam F. Halsey's Third Fleet - some of them ghosts from the graveyard of Pearl Harbor. Beyond the horizon steamed the greatest concentration of water-borne air power in war's history-Vice Admiral Mitscher's fast carrier task groups...
...parish graveyard we found two old women checking up on the marble monuments which had been blasted loose from their foundations. They were the first of many to shrug their shoulders and give a characteristic Gallic answer when asked about the troubles they had seen...
They called their squadrons by such fancy names as "Hellhawks," "Fighting Falcons" (whose Captain James E. Swett destroyed seven Jap dive bombers in one fight), "Black Sheep" (commanded by famed "Pappy" Boyington). They turned Rabaul into a graveyard of Jap ships while they made screwball talk over their radios: "Here comes Jack Armstrong, the a-a-alll American boy. Ratatat-tat." . . . "Which way'd they go, sheriff?" . . . "Thataway, pardner." . . . "Avast, ye villain, I'll pay the mortgage, take that and that and that...