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Died. Fiske O'Hara, 67, oldtime lyric tenor (Sunbeams of My Heart) who cashed in on the Irish-ballad boom begun by Chauncey Olcott, had a long stage career (Robin Hood) and a briefer Hollywood fling (Change of Heart); after long illness; in Hollywood...
...more than a thousand yards square; Fleet Admiral Nimitz announced that organized resistance had ended. There was mopping-up still to be done: a few hundred of the enemy held out with machine guns, rifles and grenades. In the final pockets many of the enemy were killed; some committed hara-kiri with grenades or by jumping off the cliffs; some surrendered...
Born. To John O'Hara, 40, writer of idiomatic, bitter-patter stories of U.S. life (Appointment in Samarra, Pal Joey), and his second wife, Belle Wylie O'Hara, 32: their first child, a daughter; in Manhattan. Name: Wylie. Weight...
...days after this return he copped one live prisoner with a flying tackle, turned him over to a second soldier to hold, then chased a second Jap, who promptly sat down and pulled out a hara-kiri grenade. Thoughtfully Sergeant Brown stopped, took out a cigaret and lit it. The Jap's face brightened. Brown replaced his .45 in its holster, walked up to the Jap and offered him a cigaret. The Jap put down his grenade for a moment to accept the gift . . . Brown went to Manila again...
...insistence on unconditional surrender. Apparently the militarist rulers of Japan, though they might be willing to part with most of their conquests in Asia, would not accept a surrender that meant their end. Apparently Premier Suzuki's words spelled out their determination to gird the nation for a hara-kiri resistance...