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...kingpin of Allagash Plantation, the last Maine outpost on the St. John River before it disappears into Maine's forests, is 6-ft., 190-lb. John Gardner. He could ride a log through white water be fore he was ten. At 20 he could lick every man within 50 miles...
...heterogeneous personnel of this outpost collect weather data and send it to Allied forecasters in Italy; they warn and guide Allied fighters and fighter-bombers raiding the Dalmatian coast; they operate a launch which goes out in any weather to pick up Allied flyers downed...
...Business. Palau, which lies more than 1,100 miles west of Truk, also lies nearly 1,100 miles northwest of General MacArthur's farthest outpost in the Admiralties. On this deep thrust into Japanese waters the Navy went with no light task force, but with a full-fledged battle fleet. Of the 50 carriers which Secretary Knox last week announced were in the Pacific, many took part. So did enough battleships to challenge the main Japanese fleet...
...night in May, 1943, three Negro soldiers, driving in a reconnaissance car through Noumea, French capital of the South Pacific outpost, came upon a white U.S. lieutenant and a French girl standing near a jeep. According to the lieutenant's testimony, the three soldiers threatened him, took the girl into the bushes and raped...
Bedford Village was the last outpost of the frontier. Two thousand settlers crowded under the walls of its fort. Around the village in every direction "stretched the illimitable forest," murder-haunted and mysterious, and green as shoal water, through which the Indians glided like sharks through reefs. Most of the action in the novel results from Indian troubles intensified by the French-British wars in Europe, the fact that the Bedford garrison was mutinous, and that the Quaker legislature in Philadelphia would not appropriate funds to fight the redskins...