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Closer & Closer. Early in the morning of Oct. 15 the Jap swept past little Savo Island, was able to make daylight landings for the first time on the northwest tip of Guadalcanal, only 15 miles from the Marines' toehold. He paid heavily. Haggard American flyers hit a battleship, fired three transports that still burned late that afternoon. But the Jap still came. He lost 17 more planes in one attack on Henderson Field. At week's end the Jap landed artillery and brought it close enough to shell U.S. positions, now under attack from land...
...Australians, remnants of a band of 50 that had battled the Japs on the north side of the Owen Stanley range. Outflanked and outnumbered, for 44 days they had fought off the Japs and beaten their way over jungle trails back to the Allied-held side of the mountains. Haggard faces, tattered uniforms, mute fatigue told a story of privation and courage that won the respectful silence of the other soldiers waiting at the jungle camp...
David Ormsbee is a new name in U.S. fiction, but he is not. As Henri Weiner and Paul Haggard he has written detective stories. As Stephen Longstreet he has written an amusing travelogue (Last Man Around the World, TIME, Sept...
...Nazi positions on the cliffs overhead rained bullets into the boat, wounding or killing half of its men. Eventually, after shifting from boat to boat and surviving a heavy dive-bombing, Munro got ashore for a few minutes. He arrived in his London office in a torn, bloody uniform, haggard from three days and nights without sleep, and wrote for twelve hours straight, keeping himself awake with benzedrine tablets...
James M. Landis made public last week his second formal report on the thankless job he took over last February-running the Office of Civilian Defense. Six months ago he had been gaunt; now he was haggard. But after those six months of dogged work, in an office which last winter housed the worst of all Washington's administrative messes, he could report some accomplishments. OCD was now functioning up to the full measure of its authority, advising State and city defense councils how to combat gas, destruction, fire, panic, and giving them the necessary material...