Word: sunsets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last sunset of Fascism was falling on Palermo, the capital and largest city of Sicily, and still the Americans had not arrived. Major General Giuseppe Molinero and his suite waited in their car, peering down a road...
Attacks 3 & 4 came in quick succession, but the first definite kill did not come until sunset after the sixth attack. A TBF placed all its bombs right under the U-boat's stern. It went down at once, then popped up, hopelessly out of control. Once more it sank at a steep angle, then resurfaced. The crew poured out of the crippled vessel; 24 were taken prisoner. The next engagement of the carrier lasted 14 hours, from dusk to daylight. Twice again the escort carrier's planes struck. In the last attack four TBFs and two Wildcat...
...Alton) Rinker can remember when he and his friend Crosby had a band at Gonzaga University in Spokane. Says Al: "Bing had a swell set of trap drums with a beautiful Hawaiian sunset painted on the big drum and lit from the inside. . . . He still can't read music and wasn't much of a drummer; he never could roll." In 1925 the boys left school and began a hazardous professional life with the help of Bing's brother Everett, a truck salesman, and Al's sister, who later turned out to be the superb blues...
Nowhere to Go. This year Dr. Good has nowhere to go. The Cheechako bobs at a Seattle dock, where Anna, now married to a Naval officer, keeps an eye on her. Dr. and Mrs. Good live in a bungalow near the sea in Sunset Beach, in Southern California, quietly Victory-gardening with a few Good twists - such as raising peacocks to eat. The doctor built the bungalow in 1941 because "I saw all this coming. When I was in the Aleutians. I was always running into Jap surveyors." He was in the Aleutians when the Japs took Kiska, departed...
...Missy" Meloney, onetime editor of Woman's Magazine, Delineator and the New York Herald Tribune Sunday Magazine, organizer of the Herald Tribune Forum, got Nichols four years ago from Sunset, the Pacific Monthly, a home-&-fire-side publication. As managing editor of This Week, Nichols, scion of New England clerics, was so awed by his boss that he observed: "You can see her beautiful spirit shining right through...