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Lionel Johnson. Oscar Wilde said that any morning at eleven o'clock you might see Lionel Johnson come out very drunk from the Café Royal, and hail the first passing perambulator. Santayana met this young poet at Oxford. Johnson looked 16, was small, pale, with small, sunken, blinking eyes, sensitive mouth, pale brown hair, and rebellious ideas. He kept a jug of whiskey on the table between two books-Leaves of Grass and Les Fleurs du Mai-and planned to become a Catholic as soon as he was of age. He became an Irish rebel instead. When Santayana...
Like everybody else, scientists have long wanted to know what Davy Jones's locker holds, besides sunken ships. Oceanographers have done some probing and charting, but the bottom of the ocean is still mostly a vast unknown. A Columbia University geophysicist, Maurice Ewing, recently reported that he had found a way to explore that sunken scene: a camera with which he has photographed the ocean floor at depths up to three miles...
After winning the battle of the air over Britain, the Germans blocked British east-coast ports with sunken ships, then made two main landings in the south of England. Simultaneously airborne troops invaded the Midlands. The first landing, in Kent and Sussex on England's southeastern tip. sucked London's defenders down to battle. Then came the second attack, to the west, in the Portland and Weymouth area of Dorset. German armor poured quickly through the inviting flats up to the rolling Salisbury Plain and the Cotswolds, then swerved southeastward to take London from the rear...
After the Japs had isolated the central Philippines in 1942, hard-bitten Philippine Scouts, Philippine Army men and U.S. Army stragglers had kept up the fight. To get ammunition, they had dived to retrieve thousands of rounds in a sunken Jap ship and some had burst their eardrums in the job. Fifteen out of 16 rounds had misfired, but even soaked ammunition was better than no ammunition...
...Paris, isolated by three months of air bombardment which had destroyed practically every means of outside communication, G-5 teams helped get wrecked power lines working again, helped clear the Seine of broken bridges and sunken barges so that coal and wheat can be brought in by water. Last week G-5 was able to report that 3,800 tons of food were reaching Paris daily. This was 600 tons short of what Paris needed and Parisians were in for a cold, lean winter. But they would not starve or freeze to death. To the U.S. Army the Paris Prefect...