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...substance, to this theory was an announcement from the Japanese Imperial Household of the establishment of a "grand national shrine'' to the Sun Goddess on Carooca, southernmost of the Japanese-owned Palau Islands. "The islands have come to occupy a very important position as an advance outpost of Japanese development southward in industry, economy and culture," read the announcement...
...Party was growing by leaps & bounds. Comrade Stalin appointed the new secretaries of the expanding organization. Comrade Stalin could not directly punish a recalcitrant secretary, but one who showed too much independence could easily be shifted, without explanation, from a nice post in, say, the Crimea, to a cold outpost in Archangel. By the time of Lenin's death in 1924 Stalinist bureaucracy was already in the saddle...
...Rhine. Starting with dozens, the Nazi raids increased to as many as 80 in a single night, in such strength that even the tough Moroccans in the Wissembourg sector had to call for artillery support to blow the raiders back. The Germans tried a new system, approaching each French outpost in separate columns or files, to bomb it with grenades from three sides simultaneously. These raids, by seasoned troops, were interpreted by the French as "information please" parties (TIME, Nov. 27), to take the place of air reconnaissance which lately cost the Germans many a plane.* But the French took...
Both Joe Koufman and Gene Lovett served fair warning yesterday in the Jayvee-C team scrimmage that they have returned to the fight for Varsity terminal posts. Neither outpost candidate made the trip to Chicago because of injuries, but both are ready now. Loren MacKinney seems pretty solidly entrenched at the left wing, but either Koufman or Lovett has a chance to edge out operatives Kelley or Devine for the other...
...alike twiddled, hoped that once war got in the groove, radio might again be able to sing for its supper. Radio Normandie has a snug little building around a corner from BBC's showy (and now sandbagged) Broadcasting House. Like everybody else in London, Radio Normandie's outpost dug in, fitted up a sub-basement air-raid shelter complete with telephones, desks, transcription machinery, eating, sleeping, toilet facilities for its staff of 200; a phonograph for dull hours...