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...That's what we've got a right to do just like the British, and that's what I aim to keep on doing." Said onetime Fusilier Graves: "This is no time to persuade the British public . . . that British greed and tyranny had solidly united the thirteen colonies in a white-hot fury of revolution. . . . The broadcast account of Breed's Hill, popularly miscalled Bunker Hill,† was beautifully and comprehensively inexact...
...smallest number of candidates for the degrees of A.B. and S.B. for over 50 years, only 87, will receive degrees. Thirteen of the candidates are from the Class of 1944, 62 are from the Class of 1945, and four belong to the Class...
...Tuberculosis death rate is thirteen times as high as that of the general population. Measures to control tuberculosis in mental hospitals are generally inadequate. ¶ Nursing methods are not standardized, nurses are often "careless," usually overworked. The nurse shortage is increased by "the privilege accorded to officers of the institutions to demand an unlimited amount of special nursing care for members of their households...
Even the carefully hoarded Jap air force was thrown into the battle. Eleven out of 18 bombers, thirteen of the 20 escorting Zeros were shot down by U.S. fighters. Of one day's fighting, TIME Correspondent James Shepley reported: "The field of this attack . . . was almost cleared of trees, sawed off by machine-gun fire and broken into shredded stumps by mortar bursts. When the attack ended I counted the bodies of 50 Japs in an area hardly bigger than my backyard at Bethesda, Md. Most of them were still in their foxholes where they had been shot...
...will find Boston a city of contrasts. In the very same week that a new novel is banned and thirteen men are arrested for "gaming on the Lord's day," you will find Errol Flynn's successor getting a big play in the newspapers and the Tassel Queen still reigning supreme...