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...Correspondent Francis McCarthy's warning reflected the mood and condition of everyone on Guadalcanal, fighting men and correspondents alike. The 31-year-old, Manila-born U.P. man had survived several attacks of dysentery, a half dozen assorted tropical complaints, a broken rib. But a final threeday, all-out Jap assault did him in. He was removed to safety, together with most of the remaining Guadalcanal correspondents and the cameraman...
...proposed budget of $100,000,000 - "a tidy sum which should make us an arsenal of adjectives, producing an abundance of words and phrases for domestic consumption, with a mighty surplus for lend-lease to the Allies." What really inspired him, though, was a new opportunity to rib "Brother" Archibald MacLeish-"bereaved parent of the always late and never lamented Office of Facts and Figures...
...these things Johnson is proud-and justly so. When the United Nations win the war, the aircraft now rolling out of his busy factories will get credit aplenty. However proud he is, he keeps it to himself. This week, in spite of a rib broken in a fall from a horse, he shuttled between the Boeing offices and his swanky $250,000 home 15 miles outside Seattle. For the production record Robert Patterson praised so highly Johnson gave most of the credit to his workers. Said he: "They like to see things rolling...
...young man on the operating table, close to death, got a local anesthetic. Dr. Finestone did a rib section and cut through the pericardial sac. As the blood spurted out of the right ventricle of the young man's wounded heart, an assistant surgeon caught it in sterile cups and sponges, and they put the blood back in the patient's body by transfusion. Dr. Finestone held the heart in his hand and stitched it up with long silk stitches. It jumped, he said, "like a fish out of water...
High in the western interior lies Bandung, the Indies Army's main citadel and headquarters. From its suburban gardens, its well-guarded bastions, civilians and soldiers can see the great, three-cratered volcano of Tangkoeban Prahu ("The Overturned Boat"). (Volcanoes-some dangerously alive, some long dead-rib the narrow island from end to end.) The city of Bandung lies in a flat-bottomed bowl in the hills. And "the thunderstorms roll about the hills all the afternoons, retired Dutch officers roll about the golf courses all the mornings, tanks and machine-gun carriers roll across the fields . . . and practice...