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...Denmark's 20-year-old Ragnhild Hveger, who made no great splash in the 1936 Olympics, has since shattered 15 of the 16 women's free-style marks. She has flailed 100 yards in 59.7 sec., one mile...
Colonel Britton promised more, hinted that at the proper time the V army would be called into action against the invaders. Until then its members were asked only to fight for independence as best they could, to "splash the V from one end of Europe to the other." In the polished, conspiratorial tones to which thousands of Europeans have lately become familiar, Colonel Britton concluded: "You are asked to join a disciplined army. It is a strange army, but one to which it is an honor to belong. It is an army which the Germans fear. . . . The Germans will...
From the foreign consulates and business houses overlooking Yokohama harbor the bulk of the Japanese Fleet was in plain sight last week: the Fleet had suddenly steamed into the harbor and dropped anchor with a rattle and splash. The publicity attending this move looked like a sign that Japan was ready for adventure and did not care who knew...
Understanding and sharing his Negroes' love for foofaraw, Lieut. Colonel Wood has gone the limit to give the 41st splash and dash. His companies are organized by sizes: all the men in any company are within an inch of the same height (Company A's men are five feet, eleven inches and over; Company F's, five feet six and under). When the 41st was born, it had no band and wanted one badly. A Negro sergeant collected some battered drums and bugles, made them do until the regiment got a real band. Now the band leads...
...American Embassy 800 yards from the sector where most of them fell, and made his color shots. They are infinitely more frightening than a black-&-white bombing. The camera pans from the neat Japanese formations of 36 planes in threes in the blue sky to the crimson splash of bursting bombs, the lavender and purple clouds of smoke and debris, the dun-colored houses standing above the muddy river, to the bodies burned black in the white-hot ashes of demolished dwellings. Only thing missing is the red flash of anti-aircraft guns. Of these, Chungking had pitifully...