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...spire rose above scenes of desolation. Dozens of bodies and thousands of head of livestock floated dead on the floodwaters. Norfolk, the hardest hit, was first to report high casualties-17 bodies found floating on the flood waters at Felixstowe, scores of other deaths-including at least nine U.S. servicemen and their kin from the East Anglian bomber base in Hunstanton. On the west of Britain, the storm took 128 in one blow when it swamped and sunk the ferry Princess Victoria on the run from Stranraer, Scotland toward Northern Ireland...
...rudder at the third, the elevators at the fourth. Last week, searching through the wreckage of the Globemaster at Moses Lake, Wash., in which 87 servicemen died (TIME, Dec. 29), investigators found its locking panel-and the plain cause of the crash. The knob hadn't been pushed past the second notch...
...Recently I attended a luncheon meeting of newspaper and magazine publishers in honor of Colonel John Jacob Astor, chairman of the London Times. Colonel Astor had come to ask for help in finding the next of kin of U.S. servicemen killed in Britain, or in operations based on Britain, during World War II. The Times, he explained, wants to give these near relatives a book it has just published, Britain's Homage to 28,000 American Dead...
...book's first chapter is a candid account of the relationships, frictions and ultimate understanding between the people of Britain and the hundreds of thousands of U.S. servicemen whom they suddenly found in their midst. Later chapters tell of the financing of an American Memorial Chapel in St. Paul's Cathedral (through the small, anonymous contributions of millions of people in the British Isles, who raised approximately $280,000), and of the dedication on July 4, 1951 of the Roll of Honour, listing the names of the 28,000 American dead...
Preparing for his Korean trip in a manner painfully familiar to all ex-servicemen, General Dwight D. Eisenhower last week rolled up his sleeves for six "booster" shots-yellow fever, cholera, smallpox, typhus, typhoid and tetanus. Though this is a process which virtually guarantees the victim two sore arms and a fever, Ike showed no visible signs of discomfort as he bustled through a busy week of conferences, callers and ceremonies...