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...Life. Astonished were the biologists upon finding a small green valley amid the icy wastes of Palmer Land (straight south of Cape Horn). Surrounded by high cliffs which concentrated the wan Antarctic sunlight, mosses, lichens and even grasses grow for one or two months each year, even though for the rest of the year they must endure 100-mile blizzards and - 60° cold. And there lives the largest land animal yet found on the Antarctic Continent: a kind of springtail, or primitive wingless insect, which is one-half inch long...
...time past, whin I put me jut through wry livin' wan of the Tin Commandments between Revelly and Lights Out, blew the froth off a pewter, wiped me mustache wid the back av me hand, an' slept on ut all as quiet as a little child...
...probably Richard Albert Tewkesbury, 34, skinny, frail, 112-lb., 5 ft. 3 in. algebra instructor at Harding High School in Charlotte, N.C. "Tooks," as he is known to the students who tower over him, is mild, puny, deep-voiced and bashful; he has peanut-sized biceps, and looks wan. Any critical Southern mammy would describe him as "peaked." He is also lionhearted, stubborn, iron-nerved, grimly determined, and a hero...
...entire force. Out of hospital, back on duty as commander of the Armored-Force last week went Major General Adna Romanza Chaffee, a pioneer tanker who fought for recognition of armored units long before Hitler sold the idea of a separate Armored Force to the U.S. General Staff. Wan, reedy-thin in mufti, General Chaffee for his homecoming to Fort Knox had a review of the First Division. His men were happy to have him back, happy that last week's orders left him in command of the new Armored Force Headquarters at Fort Knox. For the word...
...marathon spectators had left the Exeter Street finish line when Ed Souder, Jr. and Doug Shepardson, Adams House Seniors, dashed over the 26 mile, 385 yard stripe in a tie for 69th place and collapsed on the rubbing tables. Wearing only dripping shorts and wan smiles, the two men were a sorry sight...