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Only for a few minutes during the run had the fog lifted enough to disclose a ruddy glow over the Jap coast to Allied gunners. Spotting-plane pilots over the targets reported mostly "Visibility lousy," but where the cloud cover broke, near Mito, the spotter radioed: "Keep it up, gang-we're doing beautifully...
Campus Insolvency? University of Cincinnati's President Raymond Walters, in his current 25th annual report as volunteer census taker and trend-spotter for the nation's colleges,* predicted that dwindling registration will make 1945-46 one of the financially shakiest years in campus memory. His forecast...
Other boats are pulling into position. Soon the LST bow-gates yawn open and amphtracks and amphtanks pop out like young sea horses. All around the rim of sea you can see nothing but our ships while overhead spotter planes dip, circle and mark fire for the big guns...
...when you're at work you feel fairly all right because you've got a fair shelter and a good roof spotter elected by the men so he's trustworthy. And once you're asleep in your own Anderson it's not too bad because you're so tired you don't give a damn anyway. The bad time is the in-between time. From the moment you knock off you are on edge. Christ, it's all very well, Churchill's talking about well-earned repose after work, but there...
...dozen aspects of the war without getting its teeth in any of them. Playwright Hurlbut started with a card index instead of an idea. Her little community on the New England coast had to find room for a teen-age war bride, a chin-up war widow, an airplane spotter, a girl confused by pacifist upbringing, a World War I veteran who re-enlists, an old maid who finds a Nazi uniform buried in the dunes, the Nazi spy who buried it. For fear all this might be too meager, Playwright Hurlbut threw in a Nazi air raid...