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Faced with these dispositions, Douglas MacArthur in Australia, Admiral Chester Nimitz at Pearl Harbor, and all the other Allied leaders from San Francisco to Calcutta, had a tough decision to make. They had to guess what shell the pea was under...
...very interesting account of "Moving Day for Mr. Nisei" (TIME, April 6), stated in part: "Thus, last week, the first compulsory migration in U.S. history set out for Manzanar, in California's desolate Owens Valley." I recalled a historical marker that I photographed near Pea Ridge Battlefield some years ago. Apparently Mr. Nisei was not the first...
...Vila, who in on a four-month tour of the country, in now visiting here, where he spends most of his time in the Pea-body Museum. But he took time out to enjoy the boxing championships Friday night...
...Like the pea in a shell game, Britain's Prime Minister had vanished from Washington and reappeared (could it be the same cigar?) in London. Gathering its wits again, Washington felt not unlike a bewildered yokel. What had Churchill and Roosevelt been up to? What had been accomplished? In the troubled air, like motes in a just-dusted room, hung questions, not yet answered, perhaps unanswerable...
Back in the '20s, when he was captain in command of the battleship Mississippi, Tommy Hart was just as independent as he is today. Once, while leading eleven other battleships in a pea-soup fog, he heard a destroyer's warning siren, somewhere off his bow. Promptly, without consulting his fleet commander, he ordered the line to stop. Hauled up on the carpet for breach of regulations, he exploded: "If I couldn't see, how the hell could the flagship at the end of the line?" He was officially rebuked, unofficially applauded...