Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When the Japanese hospital ship Takasago Maru was intercepted removing the sick and wounded from Wake Island "the Japs didn't have any magazines aboard and very much like to have TIME, LIFE if you have, please," reports Lieutenant Frank Huggins, Tokyo-raised language officer aboard the U.S.S. Murray. The destroyer grudgingly parted with one dog-eared copy of LIFE from the ward room and several copies of TIME'S Pony Edition printed in Honolulu. "The Japs bowed an eloquent thanks with a good deal of unnecessary, hissing...
...people had little to hearten them, they eagerly grasped at two legends: 1) Captain Colin Kelly had sunk the Jap battleship Haruna by plunging his Flying Fortress "almost into the mouths of flaming Japanese guns"; 2) Major James P. S. Devereux, when asked if his handful of embattled Wake Island marines needed help, radioed: "Send us more Japs...
Last week "Jimmie" Devereux, rescued at long last from a Jap prison on Hokkaido Island, anxiously sought to set his record straight. He had never asked for more Japs. Said he, dryly: "We had more than we could handle right then and there...
Born. To William H. Vanderbilt, 43, ex-Governor of Rhode Island, now a gentleman farmer after four years in the Navy, and Anne Gordon Colby Vanderbilt, 37: their third (his fourth) child, a son. Name: William Henry Jr. Weight: 8 lbs. 2½ oz. When their twin daughters (now 14) were forecast by X ray in 1931, Lloyd's of London promptly upped its rates on insurance against twins...
...Holy Emperors. Until 1868, the Emperor meant little or nothing to the Japanese. Under the 675-year dictatorship of the shoguns (Japan's military overlords), emperors were empty figureheads often cast aside, banished or assassinated at the shoguns' whim. "From the remote island to which he had been relegated, one managed to escape, hidden under a load of fish. Others had to sell autographs for a livelihood. The Emperor Tsuchi II lay unburied for six weeks until his son borrowed the money from Buddhist priests to pay for the funeral expenses...