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Naval Drain. The Japanese reacted sharply to the invasion, but still did not commit anything like a battlefleet or a carrier task force. Even the limited reaction cost them dearly...
...reconnaissance reports may very well have duplicated each other. But it was clear that the commander of Japan's Combined Fleet, Mineichi Koga, had been stung into action. He sent forward to Rabaul substantial cruiser forces in support of troop and supply ships, still did not commit battleships or carriers so far as U.S. reconnaissance could determine...
...Clubs (representing 2,500,000 women), thought Esquire's Varga Girl drawings "obscene," was shocked by a picture of a modern bathing beauty. Shown a 30-year-old photograph of onetime swimming champion Annette Kellerman and asked if she thought it, too, was indecent, she cagily declined to commit herself except to say she had always admired Miss Kellerman as "a great exponent of health...
Mineichi Koga knows that he cannot commit large forces to one sector of Japan's huge defensive perimeter until he is sure that a heavier blow will not fall on another sector. He has to hold back until he is sure. He has been holding back quite a bit lately. But some day soon he will have to strike. If he does not, the rest of what Admiral Nimitz said will come explosively true...
...London palmist (Thomas Mitchell) reads a lawyer's palm, informs him that he is about to commit a murder. The lawyer (Edward G. Robinson), plays into the hands of fate (with a murder...