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...over the Pacific-on Tarawa, on Eniwetok, on Midway, on Guadalcanal and Bougainville; at Noumea and Espiritu Santo and wherever our fleets may be-our soldiers, sailors and marines are now reading TIME each week while that same issue is still fresh on the newsstands here at home. For example...
Between 1899 and 1944 William George Rolph had put in a lot of time with U.S. forces. In 1911 he enlisted in the Marines, landed at Pekin and Shanghai to help protect U.S. citizens during the Chinese revolution. Five years later he stormed a fort with the Marines in Santo Domingo, later served in Haiti...
...Raft. A West Pointer, and an Air Corpsman since 1924, Twining headed the Thirteenth Air Force when it was formed in January 1943 to support the drive up the Solomon Islands. A few days later, Twining was flying in a Fortress from Henderson Field on Guadalcanal to Espiritu Santo. A violent tropical storm forced the plane down at sea, and General Twining and his men were adrift in rubber rafts for six days, living on fish and seagulls, before patrol bombers rescued them...
Like Columbus himself, Morison has made four voyages of discovery. In his relentless search for new material on the Admiral's voyages, Morison cruised the Caribbean by yawl (1936-1937): traced Columbus travels along the coast of Santo Domingo (1939); crossed the Atlantic from Palos, Portugal (1939) in an expedition consisting of a 147-foot schooner and a 47-foot ketch; and combed the coast of Cuba and the Bahamas (1940) in the ketch. The actual writing of "Admiral of the Ocean Sea" began at sea, off the Azores in 1939, and was published in 1941. Called "Columbus Junior...
...late. He ate his black beans and went to bed. Soon Ricardina started the service. In a turban and bright red robes, she screamed incantations before the "pegi" (altar) to "Xango" (God of Thunder). The holy uproar swelled. At the climax, Oswaldo Candido da Silva, the "Pae de Santo" (High Priest) beheaded a squawking chicken.* The congregation made suitable noises...