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...modest, unpainted four-room house atop a narrow headland overlooking Japan's Ago Bay, a wizened little man in a brown kimono and a black derby hat shuffled about in a pearly haze. He was Kokichi Mikimoto, who has annoyed more oysters for more profit than any other man. Last week the longtime king of Japan's culture-pearl industry declared the largest personal income in Japan in the first year of American occupation. He had netted three million yen ($200,000) selling pearls to the conquerors...
...University of British Columbia at Vancouver owes much of its existence to the sis-boom-ah of its galumphing student body. In 1922, fed up with government delays in providing permanent buildings, undergraduates marched eight miles to a wooded headland overlooking Howe Sound, heaved boulders into a cairn and started one of the handsomest campuses in North America. In subsequent years they have built a gymnasium, a playing field and stadium, a recreation hall...
...depth charges landed directly on the sub's narrow deck, rolled off, and exploded beneath the surface. The surviving Germans surrendered and were rescued (see cut) as their seawolf sank. The U-boat was, perhaps, the one whose badly aimed torpedo hit the rocky headland and broke windows in a Quebec village last week...
Meanwhile from southern Italian ports the Axis sent convoys heavily reinforcing Field Marshal Rommel's Panzers in northern Africa. There was a palpable suggestion that, despite the desert's dust and heat, Rommel would strike soon from his bases where the great headland swings out to the sea on the Gulf of Sidra. The suggestion was not lost on the British. Their pilots bombed the German base at Bengasi daily; ranging through the desert storms over the German positions, they fought daily dogfights over waterless wastes...
...Britain suggested that the island, inhabited by 2,000 fisher folk, be turned into a bird sanctuary. By 1936, British complaints that Adolf Hitler was refortifying Helgoland, rebuilding its moles, were audible but ineffective. Sand suckers re-dredged the anchorage to accommodate warcraft. Near the southeast foot of the headland was built an air base. Lieut. Colonel Schumacher claimed that his Messerschmitt 110s last week prevented British planes from bombing Helgoland. Britain claimed to have bombed Helgoland as well as Sylt...