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...news of the U.S. raids on Wake and Marcus Islands (TIME, April 6) had been withheld for about four weeks-setting a precedent for the 35-day delay in the case of the Langley. But in the island raid there were plausible grounds for delay-to conceal from the enemy the whereabouts of the raiding task force until it had reached port and again gone out about its business. In the case of the Langley there were no such grounds...
...Marshall Islands (TIME, Feb. 9), it had smashed the daylights out of two Jap bases. One of them was Wake Island, where 378 Marines had held out for 14 gallant days, second stop beyond Pearl Harbor in the reach to Jap-held Guam and Manila. The other was Marcus Island (Minama Tori Shima to the Japanese), only 1,150 miles from Tokyo...
...Marcus. The task force sailed west and north. At dawn, eight days later, it stood off Marcus Island. Well down behind the horizon, the task force launched its planes and headed for home. The men on the ships had to follow the action by listening to the U.S. planes' radio. The Jap put up no fight, except from his antiaircraft, launched not a single plane. Marcus, important as a Jap supply base and link between Japan and the Mandates, got a pounding that should take weeks to repair...
...already landed (in 1919) her first, and still her largest, wholesale customer, California's I. Magnin chain of high falutin women's specialty shops. Within a few years, stores like Neiman Marcus in Dallas, Mrs. Blum's in Chicago (who said Nettie could get "more money for four seams than anyone else"), Nan Duskin's in Philadelphia, were proud to snag exclusive sales rights to Rosenstein models that set them back 60-$300 apiece, wholesale.* During the '20s, when the best was supposed to come from Paris, U.S. dress makers sold these fancy models under...
...Defense Economics," by Seymour Harris, professor of Economics, and "British Colonies and the War," by Marcus James '43 are both brief, dull, but thoroughly factual, and provide a worthwhile variation from the Guardian's tendency to emphasize theoretical material, a fault which has occurred more consistently in the past than in the current issue...