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Driving up to Stoke D'Abernon, the 23-year-old Oxford graduate nervously fingered his blond, bristly mustache. With a good war record behind him (he had lost an eye in a Jap air raid on Burma), he had come to Stoke in search of a peacetime career. A "houseparty" exam at the government's 300-year-old manor house is now the way to get a topflight civil service job in England...
...discovered a freshly sown minefield in the area where the 37th Division was scheduled to attack Manila, they picked Joey to get the information through. They taped the map to her back, told her to make her last confession, and sent her off. For 56 miles Joey trudged through Jap encampments and check points. Several times she was stopped, dismissed after a perfunctory search. She delivered the map safely...
Cord Meyer Jr., 27, is a pale young man with a preoccupied smile and wavy brown hair. His paleness and his preoccupation are the marks of war: he was very nearly killed on Guam. He lost an eye and had his face shattered when a Jap grenade exploded in his foxhole.* Since his discharge from the Marines, Cord Meyer has been a young man on a crusade. He is the president of United World Federalists, which seeks to save the world through a limited federation before an atomic war destroys...
...burly Admiral Louis Denfeld was made Chief of Naval Operations (TIME, Nov. 24), the morale of Navy airmen, already low, sank into the bilges. Admiral Denfeld was a submarine and battleship man. The only thing he knew about air power, the airmen grumbled, was what he learned from watching Jap Kamikazes dive on his battleship division off Okinawa...
...Oregon was the only state in World War II to suffer civilian war casualties (six killed by a Jap balloon bomb), and except for California, the only state to be shelled by Jap subs...