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The war caught up with Walton only six days out to sea, in the darkness before dawn when a U-boat attacked the Coast Guard cutter on which he was crossing the Atlantic (perhaps you remember his vivid story of the eight-hour battle in which the Spencer finally killed...
On the battlefields northeast of Canton, darkness persisted. The Japanese who had overrun the American air bases at Suichwan and Kanhsien pressed on to Namyung, source of steel-hardening wolfram. The great airfield at Sincheng, big enough for B-29s, was lost just nine days after an army of coolies...
On the night of Jan. 30, Private Edward S. Gordon of the 4th Marines was eating a piece of bread he had made from rice flour. Rifle fire shattered the darkness. A Jap sentry, standing on a watch tower listening to the night's hush, tumbled to the earth...
The phonograph droned in the grisly darkness for an hour and 50 minutes. At last the lights went up. In a jar of alcohol weltered a fine appendix. On the patient's belly "was a neatly closed incision. Ten days later, X rays proved that Spiritualist Bernardi's...
There were outbursts from pulpit and press. Monsenhor João Azevedo, priest of the straying sheep of Pindamonhangaba, denounced the spiritualists as cheats and frauds, offering to prove that one of the witness doctors, under cover of music and darkness, had removed the appendix himself. But the spiritualists prepared...