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BLACKBURN'S HEADHUNTERS, by Philip Harkins (326 pp.; Norton; $3.75). Except for a coast watcher or two who greeted returning U.S. forces at Leyte near war's end, Americans know practically nothing of the men who led Philippine guerrillas in World War II. Rather than surrender with U.S. forces at Bataan in 1942, these U.S. soldiers fled to the jungle and carried on as best they could. Blackburn's Headhunters is the exciting true story of Lieut. Donald Blackburn, one of the handful of Americans to fight through on Luzon to the triumphant end. He survived...
...tiny red Martians tumbling out beside an Italian farmhouse, a long-legged, long-haired spaceman chasing two Norwegian milkmaids across a field, and little green men landing in France wearing plastic helmets, orange corsets or Cellophane wrappers. Now a 32-year-old British thrilier-writer, amateur stargazer and bird watcher named Cedric Allingham reveals that he bumped into a six-foot Martian last Feb. 18 on a lonely Scottish moor not far from where the Loch Ness monster used to sport...
...current squad are Minnesotans; three of them seniors. Charles Mohlke is president of the student governing body and majors in English, philosophy and political science; Colleen Nelson majors in zoology and music and is a bird watcher by avocation; Joseph Shechtman is a sociology major and the team expert on everything; Eleanor Vaill is a junior majoring in drama and usually has the answers to questions on quotations from poetry. The team gets together about once a week for an hour or two of practice and, the night of the match, eats at a university training table, where, reportedly they...
...Registration at Memorial Hall may be less romantic than skiing, but at least the march will end with multicolored forms and not the overly-familiar bluebooks. It is even rumored that the delay of the snowfall until after the last exam has a mystical significance. Vermont's official groundhog watcher, for example, reports that yesterday's belated winter assures a fair spring...
...Clock Watcher. In Berlin, accused of failing to arrest a man fleeing a robbery, Policeman Erwin Plessow was sentenced to seven weeks in jail when he explained that he was due to get off duty in three minutes and could not possibly have caught the thief in that time...