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Died. Grace Marguerite Lethbridge, Lady Hay-Drummond-Hay, 50, peacetime British aviatrix, wartime Girl Friday (through Jap captivity in Manila) to Hearst's aged (72), No. 1 Foreign Correspondent Karl H. von Wiegand; of coronary thrombosis ; in Manhattan...
...estimates of the men who bossed the top Pacific commands: Nimitz, Spruance, Mitscher, Halsey. He has also included some of the best of the old Pacific war sagas. One of them: 18 Lightnings racing out from Guadalcanal's Henderson Field to bushwhack Admiral Yamamoto in the air over Jap-held Bougainville...
...Radiation accounted for not more than 5% of Hiroshima's fatalities (100,000 out of a 400,000 population). The proportion in Nagasaki was about the same. Japs who died from radioactive waves were within one to two kilometers of the blast. All physical damage was instantaneous with the explosion; no rays "persisted," as Jap doctors once claimed, in the soil...
...Bleeding, caused by a depletion of white blood cells (and depression of tiny blood-clotting elements called throm-bocytes), was the largest single specific cause of death among Jap victims of radioactivity...
...been thoroughly bombed, shot at, and finally driven to live like animals in caves. Some of the maimed had raw wounds alive with maggots. All suffered from malnutrition, skin diseases, lice. Yet of the 500 who had been through a nerve-shattering ordeal that drove many a Jap to suicide and many a G.I. into the mental ward, only one Okinawan cracked up.-Psychiatrist Moloney, in the current Psychiatry, jumped to a long conclusion. He figured that Okinawans get a good psychological start in life. Until an Okinawan baby is three, his mother 1) breast feeds him; 2) postpones...