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...guerrillas and Japs fought a lively skirmish within sound of the plant. Next a Jap seaplane bombed and machine-gunned the nearby town of Kabasalan. When a rumor spread that the Japs were planning to attack Pathfinder, everybody took to the hills. With them they carried their priceless marine motor, and their stock of cured rubber...
...Hundreds of crates and boxes-a huge cache of priceless works of art; Rembrandts, Raphaels, Renoirs, Dürers, Van Dycks; tapestries and engravings; a Titian Venus; original Goethe manuscripts...
...advancing Allied armies, listing damage, determining what "first aid" is needed. When he sees some of the atrocities committed on art by the retreating Nazis, he frequently has trouble with his blood pres sure. During the past year Colonel De Wald, who invariably refers to Italy's priceless objets d'art as "stuff & things," could sketch, from reports of his staff, a broad outline of what has happened to liberated Italy's historic architecture. Highlights...
Seven flags fluttered gaily atop the slate-grey Egyptian Foreign Ministry in Cairo. In an ornate salon on the main floor, delegates from six of the seven Arab states sat on the brittle insecurity of Louis Quinze chairs, stalked haughtily across priceless Iranian rugs. They had met to draw up a constitution for a federation of all Arab lands, from the Nile to the Euphrates...
Said Captain James Cook two centuries later: "The method of lunar distance from the sun or stars is the most priceless discovery which the navigator ever could have made, and must render the memory of the first discoverer of this method immortal...