Word: skirmisher
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...Skirmish. As yet, Wendell Willkie has not formally jumped into the 1944 race. He came closest last week, announcing that he would certainly enter the Illinois Presidential primary if Chicago Tribune Publisher Robert Rutherford McCormick is also a candidate. (Colonel McCormick had been proposed for the nomination by a Chicago isolationist group...
...bags all packed for three weeks, waiting for the call. (The last time I wrote you about Hersey he was just back from Guadalcanal and the sea fight where they sank the carrier Wasp-and since then you may have read his best-selling story of a skirmish in the Solomons, Into the Valley...
...were already hawking editions of Noticias Graficas, which headlined: "REVOLUTION SUCCESSFUL." Fanning out in columns, the troops approached the great Plaza de Mayo, and its government buildings. Here there was a 45-minute machine-gun battle with sailors in front of the School for Navy Mechanics and a brisk skirmish to rout Manuel A. Fresco, notorious pro-Axis nationalist, out of a barricaded building...
...Richard Tregaskis' Guadalcanal Diary (TiME, Jan. 25) and Ira Wolfert's Battle for the Solomons tell of whole campaigns. John Hersey's unpretentious little book tells of just three days-three days when, as a TIME correspondent, tall, 28-year-old Hersey went along on a skirmish with the men of Marine Captain Charles Rigaud...
...calls this expedition into a sniper-infested valley "just an episode in an insignificant battle" (the Marines won the battle, though not this particular skirmish). It "illustrated how war feels to men everywhere. The terrain, the weapons and the races of war vary, but certainly never the sensations . .. for they are as universal as those of love...