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Lucius Beebe cast his eye back over the bloody year of 1942, recalled baked lobster Savannah, soft-shell crabs, roulade of sand crabs, jugged saddle of hare, monies marinières, rack of lamb, shrimp Creole, Strasbourg foie gras, Dom Perignon champagne, pompano belle meunière, venison steak grand veneur, shad roe bonne femme, terrapin stew, escallopini of veal, oysters Rockefeller, pheasant in casserole and eggs gashouse. . . . Concluded the Lucullan Lucius: "Betcha it won't be like this next year...
...truth came out. The kitchen helper seeking the powdered milk had dim-wittedly come back from the wrong storeroom with seven pounds of sodium fluoride roach powder, with which hurried, overworked Cook McKillop had scrambled the eggs. At week's end McKillop and his boss, Mary O'Hare, were booked on charges of involuntary manslaughter...
...Hollywood tour for a Hollywood premiere. Most of the heroes were strange heroes to the towns they visited. The best known was Ensign Donald F. Mason, who radioed the "Sighted sub, sank same" message. None were as fixed in the public mind as earlier Heroes Eddie O'Hare, John D. Bulkeley, Hewitt T. Wheless (see cuts), who also had been toured and feted and cheered. There was little spontaneity about the receptions. The newspapers covered the welcomes adequately, but there were no inspired stories-the story was all covered in the Treasury Department handout...
...encounters in the Far East, and all substantially successful. One group of these: task-force operations, the brilliant raids led by Vice Admiral Halsey on the Marshall and Gilbert Islands, on Wake and Marcus. Others were miscellaneous actions such as that in which Lieut, (now Lieut. Commander) O'Hare shot down five Jap bombers when a U.S. task force was itself under attack...
...model Wildcat. Last February, carrier-based Wildcats engaged Japanese land-based aircraft over the Marshall Islands, shot down ten fighters and three bombers without loss of a single U.S. plane. At Wake Island, two Marines in Wildcats sank a Jap cruiser with bombs. Lieut. Commander Edward ("Butch") O'Hare was at a Wildcat's controls when he bagged five Jap bombers and crippled another in a single engagement...