Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will receive commissions in the United States Naval Reserve or in the United States Marine Corps Reserve tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock during exercises which climax a seven term accelerated program of study. Vice Admiral W. S. Pye, USN. President of the Naval War College of Newport, Rhode Island, will award the commissions and address...
John M. Kolbjornsen, Staten Island, New York; Donald N. McElwain, Holyoke; John H. Marshall, chicago; Hugh C. Mason, Somerville; Clifton F. Mountain, Toledo; Burns Nugent, Burbank, California; Francis W. Peabody, Brookline; Paul M. Pearson, Washington, D. C.; James B. Petterson, Worcester...
...attack on Corregidor came literally out of the blue. One half of the 503rd Parachute Regiment boarded its planes on Mindoro Island. As their transports sailed over the ½-sq.-mi. head of pollywog-shaped Corregidor, the paratroopers jumped in ten-man teams, one at a time, for almost two hours. Most came down on "Topside," the western plateau of the fortress islet, but some were carried by the wind over the cliffs into South Channel, where PT boats scurried to pick them up. The sky troopers took most of Corregidor's remaining guns from the rear...
...civilian clothes, the public opinion polls eagerly tabulate his beliefs, his prejudices, his tastes. Few contemporary novels reflect this revolution in the status of the Average Man so sharply as Lower than Angels. Its hero is a character Sinclair Lewis might have drawn: Marvin Lang, son of a Staten Island delicatessen merchant. The story records his progress to a butcher shop, to the Army in World War I, to ownership of a prosperous market...
Delicatessen Adventure. The other setting is the Lang delicatessen store in the village of Belle Bay on Staten Island. Bought with the $6,500 the Langs got for Grandma's house, the store was the biggest adventure of their lives. Until this point, Lower than Angels seems only another story of the decline of the lower middle class. But this store makes money. A tan, two-story-and-attic house, with its porch remodeled into a store front, it stood in a village where there were sycamore and elm trees over the streets, a Methodist Church where Marvin...