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...modesty, Hope says: "I'll tell you what it is; I was born with timing and coordination, and I got seven writers. With their brains and my timing, we can't miss." His three-room office over his garage is packed with such proud possessions as a Jap Zero wing sent him by a Guadalcanal Marine. In England two radio hours are regarded almost as sacred periods, when no interruptions are tolerated: 1) the BBC news broadcasts, 2) Bob Hope's program...
Last week from the Sanananda front in New Guinea came a dramatic eyewitness dispatch telling of the fighting that broke the last Jap resistance in Papua. Over it was Vice President Bartholomew's byline...
...dirt road complete with rugged farmer, there were full-page color photos of Franklin Roosevelt (with a story about him) and Henry Wallace (with an article by him). Other features: a three-page color spread of Marines training for combat; a double-truck photo of a bomb-battered, sinking Jap cruiser; three pages of pictures showing camouflaged and bombed Berlin buildings...
Blitz Course. Toughest exercise of all was the 500-yd. blitz course which each trainee must travel alone. First he must vault a fence, then scale an 8-ft. wall, climb another fence, swing across a creek on a hanging rope. As he lands, a dummy Jap pops from behind a tree and must be bayoneted. As the trainee crosses a log another Jap drops near him and must be shot from the hip. Beyond various other obstacles the trainee reaches a climax at a 13-ft. wall atop a plateau, which he must scale with rifle ready...
...World War II Lewis' invention has made one verified appearance thus far: at Ichang, in the Yangtze Valley, where 3,500 Chinese fell in October 1941 when the Japs unleashed clouds of lewisite. This was one of 880 verified instances of Jap use of gas. The Ichang incident was followed quickly by public warnings from President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill. No repetitions have been reported...