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...craft were Philippine "Q-boats," 65-foot torpedo carriers which Douglas MacArthur had ordered years before, when he first became the Commonwealth's Field Marshal. The four boats should have met before dawn, then hidden near the shore until the next night. But the Q-boats had taken a beating since Dec. 7 and their tired engines could not do their rated 39 knots. The two parties had to risk a daylight voyage and did not meet until nearly noon...
...little boats pitched and shivered in the high swells; the hardiest officers aboard thought that their necks were snapping off. They sympathized with Mrs. MacArthur, the boy and Ah Ju. Toward dawn, three hours behind schedule, the little fleet made its intended landfall-on or near the Island of Mindoro, no more than 100 miles from the nearest Japanese lines, no farther from Manila. Awaiting General MacArthur were two Flying Fortresses. Exactly how and where they found concealment and landing space, was something the Japs may never know...
Neither Pearl Harbor nor the grey dawn of Tax Day (see p. 15) had cast a shadow on the sale of women's hats. This year, as in 1941, girls in school, girls in factories, wives of workers and fighters, will deck their waves with some 130,000,000 bonnets...
...looked capable of murder. "I hear tell you want a girl," she said fiercely. "You take me." Author Rawlings explained that the girl was too old to learn her ways. Said 'Geechee: "If I don't do to suit you, you can cut my throat." At dawn 'Geechee began to scrub down the house-walls, floors and ceilings. She used up six cans of potash. She wore a hole in the kitchen floor pursuing a stain. "I shall never have a greater devotion," said Author Rawlings, "than I had from this woman." Soon 'Geechee grew confidential...
Another time Sam watched Black Cawper, the local strong man, fight an almost Icelandic battle on the moor, from dusk to dawn, with a supernatural blond giant. When Black lost, he said: "Ba gum, Ah'd like to tak' thee hoam and hev a pup off'n thee!" Black's son Ian was the first blond Cawper in generations...