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...handiest of all weapons for getting the Jap out of his carefully revetted bunkers or sealing him in forever. The fire is thrown from the Army's improved portable flamethrower, which is superior to anything the Jap is known to have, more easily maintained, simpler, unaffected by tropic damp...
Henry Miller, whose Paris-published novels Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn have stirred intelligentsiacs to as much prurient curiosity and as much sour criticastery as any novels since James Joyce's Ulysses, published an appeal for charity in the New Republic. He said he wanted contributions of old clothes ("love corduroys") and watercolor materials. In Beverly Glen, near Los Angeles, the 52-year-old, free-loving, free-sponging American-from-Paris had been destitute for months. Recently he had taken up painting...
...most of the week it was ideal torpedo weather. The high tropic moon flaunted itself above masses of gauzy clouds. During these nights death passed the ships so close that we could hear 'the beating of his wings.' Some nights we had the advantage of black storms but even in dense rain and squall, weirdly lit by lightning, the Japanese snoopers sought us. One torpedo plane found us and tried to hit our flanks...
...Bandsman. But Ernesto Lecuona's biggest popularity lies south, of the Tropic of Cancer. There his eminence is fabulous. Cuba has two other top-rank songwriters: Moises Simons (The Peanut Vendor) and Eliseo Grenet (Mama Ines). But Lecuona's 300-odd songs and piano pieces, to which Latin Americans have been listening for more than two decades, have become as indelible a part of their culture as the Spanish and Portuguese tongues. Several years ago, while Lecuona was safely on his plantation near Havana, a businessman named Ricardo Lecuona was killed in a plane crash in Colombia. While...
Already thousands of votes have been recorded-votes marked on handmade ballots yellowed with tropic humidity and desert grime: soldiers have been voting since nominations closed June 30. Out of Australia's 7,000,000 population, 820,000 men and 40,000 women are in the services...