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...Pacific war flowed swiftly westward and a great naval supply system, from Pearl Harbor to Australia, was left behind. In its stead, another of the Navy's imposing monuments to U.S. speed and ingenuity was built and implemented. By last week one of its secret-wrapped bases was far enough in the rear for the Navy to feel safe in unwrapping it. The base was Manus in the Admiralty Islands, more than 6,000 miles southwest of San Francisco, a key supply and repair point for the Philippine invasion...
...LOVE ALONE-Christina Stead-Harcourt, Brace...
Thus Christina Stead, author of the widely acclaimed House of All Nations (TIME, June 13, 1938), describes with mordant skill the turmoil within her young heroine, the schoolteacher who seemed such a prude but who alone in her room paraded her nudity in obscenely contrived costumes and prayed to Venus for fulfillment. Less convincing is Author Stead's description of Teresa's attempt to find an answer to her prayers...
Teresa finally finds fulfillment in the arms of her employer, one James Quick. Readers who follow the searchlight of Australian Author Stead's brilliant verbiage into every depth and cranny of her heroine's complex spirit will find themselves wondering if she has not overdone a good thing. In a tireless effort to prove Teresa's typicality, Miss Stead has made her a singularly atypical case...
...convention was the man who said no and meant it. California's big, blond, husky Earl Warren could have had the Vice Presidential nomination. Republicans were sure that he-like Tom Dewey-only needed urging. His last-minute refusal put John Bricker on the ticket in his stead, and raised two questions: why had he declined, and why had he waited so long...