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Highlighting the work of poets Kenneth Koch, John Ashbery, John Hawkes, Jr., Ruth Stone, and Seymour Lawrence, are Lauriat Lane's Garrison Prize Poems. In three pieces; "Love Song After Tea," "Pastoral," and "Demobilized," Lane writes with a frugality that effectively achieves simplicity. Only in "Au Clair De Lune," the fourth of his five included poems, does Lane run into trouble with a high-flown cadenza (". . . the moon hangs pendulous/Upon the watch-chain of some night-vested god . . .") that weakens the impression of sincerity his first three works convey...
...Liberian Army officers persuaded their bibulous countrymen to disperse. Now the U.S. Army has more than doubled the Roberts Field garrison-it flew in 13 more G.I.s from the occupation forces in Germany...
Died. Lewis Edward Lawes, 63, famed, longtime (1920-41) warden of New York's Sing Sing* Prison; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Garrison, N.Y. Jailer-Author Lawes (Twenty Thousand Years In Sing Sing), a foe of capital punishment, was required by his job to witness 303 executions, bowed his head when the electric chair's 2,000 volts jolted out a human life...
...After months of continuous fighting and hard labor, G.I.s (though averaging five to ten pounds underweight) were in excellent physical shape-as fit as troops training in the U.S. and much fitter than garrison troops in Hawaii (who went a little soft...
...weeks the U.S. garrison had seen signs of resurgent Jap activity. A raft loaded with stolen Marine rations was discovered floating in Peleliu's lowland swamps. Then a Marine sentry fired on a band looting a warehouse of captured Japanese weapons, was answered with rifle and grenade fire. The Jap strength was estimated at 50, led by a lieutenant commander, with more coming in daily from nearby Babelthuap. Alarmed by the weakness of his small, lightly armed Marine garrison, worried for the safety of the 35 naval dependents, Peleliu's commander radioed for reinforcements...