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...display of U.S. airpower as the start of a long-awaited air offensive. Such rejoicing was premature. But by simple arithmetic the Japs could figure that if U.S. bombers were within range of Linhsi and Hong Kong, they were within range of most of the Stolen Empire-Korea, Formosa, Manila, Manchuria-and even of the island homeland...
...drama is Mary Rafferty. Mary was 16 when she left her Irish shanty in Pittsburgh to work as a maid in Ironmaster William Scott's mansion. The Scott Iron Works were still a young, vigorous business. Soon they were to produce shells that won victory for Dewey at Manila Bay. Later the Works descended from father to son, slowly losing their family stamp as they passed more & more into the hands of stockholders, corporation lawyers, bored Scott cousins...
...Champion Chinky died and left 25 lb. of metal cups and badges to the local campaign. A woman in Cohoes, N.Y. donated an iron bench she used to sit on beside her Spanish-American War veteran husband's grave. The old cruiser Olympia, flagship to Admiral Dewey at Manila and bearer in 1921 of the body of the Unknown Soldier, started to have her 5,865 tons reduced to scrap...
...Pearl Harbor should have been surprised. "They got the same warnings we did in Manila. That war was maybe days, perhaps even only hours, away." Lieut. Robert Boiling Kelly knew enough to "put aboard the thickest charcoal-broiled filet mignon" Manila could supply, so as to be ready for the attack...
After a day-long tussle with the manila envelopes, Freshmen will hear the University's war-geared program explained and the customary fatherly advice presented this evening at 7:30 o'clock in the Lowell House dining room. In the absence of President Conant, who is engaged in war work at Washington, Dean Paul H. Buck of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences will welcome Harvard's newest undergraduates...