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...drizzly afternoon last week Patrick Morgan O'Laughlin pressed a buzzer. Workmen at the Dravo Corporation, on Neville Island near Pittsburgh, knocked the blocks out from under a squat, flat-bottomed craft perched on the ways in Dravo's west yard. A tank landing ship slid down the smoking ways into the Ohio River...
...Bald, squat, harried ex-Cinemagnate Joseph M. Schenck, having served a third of his year-and-a-day term for perjury, walked free on parole. Originally sentenced to three years for income-tax evasion (to the tune of $412,000), he won a suspension of that sentence after testifying against union racketeers Willie Bioff and George E. Browne...
...done their work, and the Navy was ready to tell the story, it was enough to know that this time the shells pounding the invaded islands came from U.S. ships. This time the bombs rending docks, ships, airdromes and troops were U.S. bombs. The men riding shoreward in squat assault boats, leaping to the beaches, mounting their guns and slowly closing their hold on the islands were U.S. Marines. This time it was the Japs who peered slit-eyed from the slit trenches, who listened for the roar of attacking planes, who wondered when the hard, murderous strangers would next...
...Squat, barrel-chested, Norwegian-born Bernt Balchen was one of the great U.S. peacetime heroes. He began flying more than 20 years ago, piloted Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd across the Atlantic in 1927 and over the South Pole in 1929. Last week Bernt Balchen, now a 42-year-old U.S. Army colonel, was back in a hero's role again-this time in barren, ice-capped Greenland...
...soldiers marched around the flagpole again. All the women smiled at them. The visitors saw faces in the windows of a squat gray building. The faces smiled very contentedly on the soldiers with the anchors on their hats and the women who lived near them. One of the visitors murmured "The place has recently been sold." The visitors went away, and one whom they called Vag shook his head...