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...intense French citizen, Jacques Lipchitz has been turning out weird, passionate work for 33 years. He is one of the world's most highly praised and least understood sculptors. He made the sketches for Benediction along the road from fallen Paris, in the midst of a wild, tragic rout. His idea was to make a statue of the harpist when & if he succeeded in reaching...
...Company 3 over a stumbling Lowell five makes this navy dreadnaught undisputed master of the intramural loop. Adams and Daley were double trouble that the Bellboys couldn't seem to corral, in each broke through for eight field goals before the merciful final whistle put an end to the rout...
...Rout. The Kwantung Army, under Russia-hating General Otozo Yamada, showed that its reputation had been won with propaganda. Nowhere did it offer effective opposition...
There are many more of such backwash wars to be fought. In Celebes, Java, Timor, Halmahera and countless other Pacific Islands there are perhaps 165.000 Jap holdouts, isolated but still untouched by the Allies. There is little question that they are there to stay until the Aussies rout them out and kill them...
Wishbone-shaped Wake, scene of one of the Marines' heroic stands in the war's early weeks, had another last-ditch garrison aboard. But no one went to rout them out. They were dying on the vine, as dozens of other bypassed garrisons in the Pacific were dying...