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...days the 25,000 Chamorros on Guam* had quaked in their flimsy thatch houses or hidden in caves while U.S. aircraft, battleships, cruisers and destroy ers rained explosives on the first piece of U.S. territory captured by the Japanese. Liberation was coming, but first a hail of steel...
Throughout the Pacific, "Top of the Mark" is a nostalgic name. On a hill above a New Guinea airfield the thatch-roofed Officers Club was named "Top of the Mark." On atolls and in jungles, dusty tents and tubular Quonset huts bore the same name. The original is in San Francisco, an elegant saloon atop the city-topping Mark Hopkins Hotel. When fog winnows against the great windowpanes, the circular bar and soft lounges seem out of this world. For soldiers and sailors, its atmosphere is just right for the gaiety of homecoming, the murmuring of farewell...
...erect that he always seems to tower. He weighs only about 20 lb. more than his best fighting weight (175). His clear blue eyes twinkle behind his pince-nez; his lean, patrician face is less wrinkled than the faces of many men 20 years younger; he has a healthy thatch of snow-white hair...
...grew rougher, Lieut. Commander Noah Adair, the Angry's captain, pulled his weatherproof hood tighter over his red thatch, drew the voluminous coat closer around his tall, lanky frame. The bridge, where he stood swaying with the ship's roll, was open to rain, wind and spray, except for a strip of canvas lashed to the rail and another strip overhead...
...House rustled and started to rise, but stopped when the familiar white thatch of Lloyd George bobbed up from a front bench on the fight for the historic occasion's last word...