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...John Benjamin Powell, pre-Pearl Harbor editor of the China Weekly Review, came back to the U.S. late last summer, was carted straight off the exchange ship Gripsholm to Manhattan's Harkness Pavilion to be treated for: 1) gangrenous feet suffered in a filthy, ice-cold Jap prison cell; 2) emaciation that had reduced him from 160 pounds to half as much. Last week imperishable, cheerful Editor Powell was still convalescing, expects to be for many more weeks. But he now weighs 110, one foot is healed. When the other is ready, Powell will begin arduous exercises, finally will...
...most dramatic battles of 1942. Six-foot seven-inch, bespectacled Richard Tregaskis, 26, is an International News Service correspondent who landed with the first Marine contingents to hit the Solomons. For seven weeks, until he was relieved, he lived with the Marines, became as tough and wiry as any. Jap snipers shot at him. Jap pilots strafed and bombed him. On his way out of the islands by bomber he started to write about it all. In Honolulu he finished his book...
...book's secret is the simple secret of all good reporting-fidelity and detail. It gives a good picture of what life on Guadalcanal is like. Tregaskis' description of the Battle of the Tenaru River, which he watched while Jap tracers wove a bright red network of visible death around his head, gets its power from the countless sights he remembers and sets down rather than from any comment he makes about them. Excerpts...
...rest of the flesh and bone peeled up over the man's head, like the leaf of an artichoke; there a charred head, hairless but still equipped with blackened eyeballs; pink, blue, yellow entrails drooping; a man with a red bullet hole through his eye; a dead Jap private, wearing dark, tortoise-shell glasses, his buck teeth bared in a humorless grin, lying on his back with his chest a mess of ground meat. There is no horror to these things. The first one you see is the only shock. The rest are simple repetition...
...communique reported that the Jap base at Munda on New Georgia Island, 180 miles northwest of the American-held Henderson airfield, was hit four times with heavy damage between dawn and dusk yesterday...