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...Pacific, the destroyers struck with all their weapons-depth charges, torpedoes, guns-and realized all their manifold possibilities as warships. In the night Battle of Surigao Strait, they even had a chance of fighting in the old textbook fashion. Rear Admiral Jesse B. Oldendorf, cruising at the northern end of the strait with the U.S.'s older battleships, learned that a big Japanese force, including two battleships, was headed for the strait from the west to turn the tide in the battle for Leyte. Oldendorf corked up the mouth of the strait with his old battlewagons, sent destroyers...
...Beverly Hills, Teitelbaum furriers offered mink bras and panties in 30 different mutations. Price: $2,500 a set. Also in Beverly Hills, Jewells by Tobias put on sale gold cuff links, in the shape of "his" and "her" shorts (viewed from the rear...
...Died. Rear Admiral William Sterling Parsons, 52, deputy Navy ordnance chief and pioneer A-bomb weaponeer; of a heart attack, ten minutes after entering the National Naval Medical Center for a checkup; in Bethesda, Md. During World War II, he helped set up the first A-bomb test at Alamogordo, N. Mex. (1945), three weeks later rode over Japan in the bomb bay of the B-29 Enola Gay to trigger the second Abomb, minutes before it was dropped on Hiroshima...
...roadblocks. Hordes of refugees (and Communist troops disguised as refugees) clogged the roads and infiltrated the American lines. Guerrillas sniped from the rear...
Dispassionate Wonder. Renny's Whiteoaky common sense drives Dilly crazy. "Patronizing brute!" she screams, waving a poker at him. But the master is so unmoved that when Dilly bends over "to sweep the hearth," he, "dispassionately observing her figure from the rear, wondered how he ever could have expected her to have a good seat on a horse." "Her achievement," Critic Edward Weeks has said of Author de la Roche, "makes me think of Trollope and Galsworthy." In fact, Author de la Roche's achievement seems to be that she knows that Jalna's changeless orchards, spaniels...