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Recruit Wanted. In Philadelphia, an aircraft-carrier crew searched in vain for a mascot - all available monkeys were either too young...
Several homebound B-29s made emergency landings on Iwo Jima's hastily repaired southern airfield. The Marines who had given their lives to win Iwo had not died in vain. Only two B-29s were lost...
Despot, dictator, lunatic, gangster-with these words Yenan last week resumed its political critique of Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, after almost a year of vain negotiations between Chungking and the Chinese Communists. The words fell thick and fast...
...looks in vain," says Bowers, "for any convincing evidence that Jefferson availed himself of fine ladies . . . but had he done so he would have been . . . reticent and discreet...
Being not vain...