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...Berens and Frank Rinaldi, the Gold Coast five was ahead from the opening whistle and remained there until the end. The score was 18-13 at the half; but the men from Lowell had to succumb in the last canto to a superior attack...
...Guinea. Finschhaven was the third Jap base on the Huon Gulf to succumb to General Douglas MacArthur's relentless drive. Salamaua had fallen in 75 days, Lae in twelve, Finschhaven in ten. The crack Australian 9th Division knocked out the Jap's last pillboxes with hand grenades and swarmed over their stronghold. Few Japs were taken prisoners. Some fled into the jungle with hard-bitten Diggers on their heels. The Japs fought fiercely but, according to the men of the 9th, not as formidably as the Germans. The 9th ("Morshead's Marines") should know. They helped crack...
...those who do not succumb to Orpheus' charms, there will be more substantial pleasures. Food and drink will be served. Certainly there will be dancing before and after the show. Better begin planning now to bring your wives and sweethearts, WAVES, WACS, or WHAMS, or maybe a SPAR. Everything is being arranged for the big event: Professor Mimno is even communicating with the ionosphere to arrange for the best possible weather...
...efficient and honest governing bodies. The people must come to the realization that higher salaries must be paid to city officials so that: (1) men with greater ability and higher moral integrity will be attracted to politics, and (2) the men in office will not find the need to succumb to the ever-present temptation of graft, and (3) there will be enough able men with honest and responsible inclinations in government positions so that lack of ability or dishonesty will not be tolerated either by the officials or the public...
...leaves his girl (Mary Rolfe) and his family to become a soldier. Quizz goes to training camp and then to war, and, on a tiny island in the Pacific, is part of a gallant, malaria-ridden remnant that face war's horror, enact its heroism and succumb to its fate...