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...will be no return game at New Haven to give Harvard a chance for revenge over the Blue for the four-point victory the Bulldogs eked out on December 18. Replacing the game, originally scheduled for January 19, will be a tilt with the Boston Coast Guard at Constitution Wharf...
Died. William Wymark ("W.W.") Jacobs, 79, for almost 50 years a favorite British humorist; after long illness; in London. For his comic Dickensian tales of London dockside life, beaky, grey-thatched Jacobs drew on boyhood experiences as the son of a Wapping wharf manager. With Many Cargoes (1896) he freed himself from a post-office clerkship. But though he culled some 17 volumes in the same vein for his 1931 omnibus, Snug Harbour, his best-known short story was the macabre The Monkey...
...crew sighted the coast of Japan. Flying in at low level they saw fruit trees in bloom, neat farms fitting into each other, farmers at work. It took iron control to pass up "the biggest, fattest-looking aircraft carrier" the crew ever saw. Every inch of shoreline was wharf, crowded with yachts and heavy ships. They flew low over the roofs toward the first of their chain of four targets. Four times the red light on the instrument board blinked, as each bomb was released. Lawson looked back once, saw a steel smelter "puff out its walls and then subside...
...late autumn sun spread a dull sheen over the refuse-strewn waters of the Plata River. Slowly the small, grey minesweeper Drummond nudged against a deserted wharf. Down the gangway stepped a tired, disheveled, stubborn old man, Ramon S. (for nothing) Castillo, Vice President of Argentina from 1938 to 1940, Acting President from 1940 to 1942, President from 1942 until last week, President in Exile for one day, now ex-President...
Since January 1942 the Japanese had held Rabaul on Blanche Bay, the flooded crater of an extinct volcano which gives deep water almost to the shore. In peacetime Rabaul's tiny wharf was used chiefly by island trading ships of two companies, W. R. Carpenter & Co. and Burns Philp & Co. Now the harbor is a great Japanese naval and troop-transport center. From it, short and efficient supply lines radiate to forward bases above both shoulders of Australia-a score of spots such as Kupang on Timor and Gizo in the Solomons. From those forward bases, which like Rabaul...