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Annalee Jacoby saw nearly as much of the war. Having gone to Chungking for the United China Relief, she and her fiance, TIME Correspondent Melville Jacoby, retired to Manila in November 1941 in order to be married under slightly less uncertain conditions. Within two weeks the Philippines were attacked and their wedding trip was a 2,500-mile voyage in a small boat from Corregidor to Australia. There, shortly afterward, Jacoby was killed in an airfield accident. After two years in the U.S., Annalee Jacoby returned to Chungking in 1944 to look after TIME'S office during the intervals...
Died. Royal Arch Gunnison, 37, foreign correspondent, author (So Sorry, No Peace), radio newscaster who in 1942 remained in Manila to cover the city's fall, spent 22 months as a Japanese prisoner; in an airplane crash; near Hong Kong...
...usual: there had been almost no "Bermuda highs" - the masses of stagnant air which often loiter for days or weeks over the Atlantic. Slowly revolving in a clockwise direction, they plague the coast al areas with sweltering humid weather blown off the tepid Gulf Stream, make Manhattan seem like Manila or Singapore...
...talked freely to Ferris Greenslet, former Houghton Mifflin editor-in-chief, and granted him permission to quote from family letters and papers. The, result is a short history of ten Lowell generations, down to and including that of the stout, imperious maiden lady who admired Keats and smoked long Manila cigars...
...will extend its present mid-Pacific routes: 1) from Manila to Saïgon, Singapore and Batavia; 2) from Midway to Tokyo, Shanghai and Hong Kong; and 3) from Hong Kong via Saïgon, Bangkok and Rangoon to Calcutta, where it will connect with its North Atlantic route...