Word: papuans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wherever he went, me Bishop made friends. He learned to preach to Papuan natives in their own tongue. Australians liked his lack of "side." He carefully avoids any hint of the stuffed shirt: "When I was the dean of [Oriel] my colleagues used to write to me as 'the not-very-reverend Dean...
...Font, Ready Knife. Frequently there is not enough type to go round. In September the supply of "I"s ran out during composition of ARMISTICE SIGNED BY ITALIANS. A native Papuan printer chiseled some out of wood. Another time there were not enough "R"s. Editor Leonard gave capital "P"s tails cut from...
Correspondent Johnston has especially kind words for a German-born American and a native Papuan. The American, Herman Bottcher, led twelve volunteers into the Japanese positions, built fortifications on the beach. Constantly under fire, Bottcher provided a diversion that resulted in Allied victory. "By a conservative count . . . Bottcher and his twelve men . . . killed more than 120 Japs." The Papuan, Katue, conducted a one-man guerrilla war against the Japanese. In the jungles he killed innumerable Japanese and scared many New Guinea natives who had gone over to the Japanese back to the Allied side. After 73 days of individual exploits...
...thatched bamboo hut on Papua recently the Allied Papuan Medical Society held its fifth monthly meeting. The assembled U.S., British and Australian doctors listened to learned papers by some of their company on "Aviation Medicine in Combat," "Moral Fiber," "Fear," "The Fighter Pilot" and "Medical Air Service." There were exhibits on aviation medicine and the life cycle of local malaria-bearing mosquitoes, including a tank of live fish in the act of eating mosquito larvae. The doctors, said the report to the A.M.A. Journal, saw "a complete display of Japanese surgical instruments and appliances with many of their drugs...
...from his entertainment tour of the South Pacific military bases, gape-grinned Film Comedian Joe E. Brown had covered 32,000 miles, had seen more war front than most U.S. soldiers. He had ripped through comedy routines before 8 a.m. and hours after dark. One show he did in Papuan jungle grass up to his hips, six minutes' march from Jap positions; another went on in a driving downpour at Milne Bay, New Guinea...