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...Maltese Knights held her against the Turks. She became the bulwark of Christendom against the Infidel, grew to be an even stouter bulwark when Grand Master Jean de la Valette Parisot built the fortress city which was named after him and which stands today on the north shore like an amber rock pile in the Mediterranean's sapphire...
...jeep has spread so far that the British, Dutch and Canadians are investigating it. Until the British began using jeeps in Africa, no foreign army had anything quite like it. But, in war or peace, the jeep appears to have a long future ahead of it as a stouter resurrection of the old flivver. Some agricultural experts expect the jeep to be an invaluable asset to the farmer, and many a soldier is firmly determined to get one after the war, for his personal...
...laude), then to Harvard Law (1911 cum laude). Traditionally he might have returned to Philadelphia, crusted city of his fathers, and, considering his high breeding, lived gently on his wealth. But the job he got as secretary to Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, the great dissenter, gave him stouter ideas...
With the plodding thoroughness of Henry James developing a character in fourteen chapters, Playwright Robert Sherwood as director of "Adam-Had Four Sons" has made it into a psychological dissection of an upperclass family during the last war. Warner Baxter, stouter than in his matinee idol days but still a portrayer of semi-phlegmatic emotion, acts the bachelor-ed broker whose love for his housekeeper (Ingrid Bergman) is disturbed by her suspicious actions in protecting him from knowledge of the unfaithfulness of his daughter-in-law. Susan Hayward looks, as well as plays, the part of the scheming minx...
...three logical attack points on the island, Manila Bay is the most obvious. Therefore it is the most heavily fortified. Centre of its fortification is the island of Corregidor. Americans in Manila boast that Corregidor is the most strongly fortified point in the world, stouter than Gibraltar or Blakan Mati, Britain's strong point at Singapore. But, unlike Blakan Mati, which is part of a defense organized in depth, Corregidor, like Gibraltar, stands alone. If an enemy captured it, he would have the works...