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Empress Dowager Sadako of Japan ("the Mother of God"), 61, was reported to have moved from Tokyo to Tomoemon Kondo Villa Karuisawa, a mountain resort somewhat nearer Heaven...
...postwar record world is coming in on the wings of an old-fashioned hymn sing. Leading the service is Movie Thrush Jeanette MacDonald with such standbys as Holy City and Nearer, My, God, to Thee (Religious Songs, Victor, 6 sides). Fred Waring's glee club & orchestra harmonizes ten others (Songs of Devotion, Decca, 10 sides). Operatic Tenor Richard Crooks solos the Negro hymns Were You There? and The Trumpeter (Victor, 2 sides). Alfred Wallenstein directs his new command, the Philharmonic Orchestra of Los Angeles, in the Schubert and Bach-Gounod Ave Marias (Decca, 2 sides). For the more secular...
Lightning Thrust. Potentially, the bomb not only raised the middle and small powers much nearer to the U.S. level; it also restored to warfare "the lightning thrust" by which a smaller power might knock out a greater. The atomic bomb put a new premium on aggression (surprise) and even on chance...
...nearer the U.S. came to V-J day, the more pressing became one of the nation's most complex problems-what to do after the war with the gigantic war-built U.S. Merchant Marine? Much had been said about it, and little done...
Ulithi is a series of flat, palm-dotted islands (strung onto a necklace-shaped atoll). It is 110 miles east of Jap-held Yap, 400 miles southwest of Guam-and 4,000 miles nearer the war than Pearl Harbor. Ulithi was captured without opposition last September by the 321st Regiment of the 81st Infantry Division.* The Japs had just left. Ulithi's great, 112-sq.-mi. anchorage could hold nearly 1,000 ships of the U.S. Fleet-something neither Guam nor Pearl Harbor...