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...morning of April 18 was bitterly cold and rough. Off to the left, a cruiser let go a broadside. "A low-slung ship began to give off an ugly plume of black smoke." U.S. gunnery had gotten a small Japanese ship within three minutes. But three minutes is time enough to flash a warning. It would no longer be a night attack at 400 miles, but a daylight raid at 800. Lawson heard the shout: "God damn! Let's go!" They went...
...patronized him, lent him money, and after his death became his literary executor. He did one of the poorest jobs with the richest material that any literary executor has ever done. This poet (or someone writing for him) said what Griswold was and would be with deadly accuracy: For gotten, save only by those whom he has injured and insulted, he will sink into oblivion, without leaving a landmark to tell that he once existed; or, if he is spoken of hereafter, he will be quoted as the unfaithful servant who abused his trust. The poet: Edgar Allan...
Unlike most U.S. magazine publishers, many newspaper owners have been loth to ration their advertising or circulation; some of them have taken all they can get. Far from reducing newsprint consumption, a few U.S. metropolitan dailies have asked for (and gotten) extra paper to take care of increased business. In typical, war-swollen Seattle, circulations have soared-the Times is up 30% over a year ago-and so has advertising linage. On scores of papers the want-ad sections have blossomed into big cash-takers, as the manpower shortage forced employers to plead for "Girls...
...Said Mississippi's drawling, red-haired William M. Colmer: "The sad and sorry spectacle of the House. . . bringing up an issue calculated more than anything else to bring about disunity. I know that you have gotten your orders from John L. Lewis, from Earl Browder, from the Association for the Advancement of Colored People . . . and from the First Lady of the Land...
...Doomed. The Donners tried it-against the advice of a mountain scout who had just barely gotten through. There were 87 people in the doomed party-about half of them children, and half of these less than six years of age. "They were going to California ... to live out their days in the languorous, winterless country. . . . The younger children would grow up in a softer, more abundant life-and their gentility would not be impaired." George Donner's wife, Tamsen, took along "apparatus for preserving botanical specimens, water colors and oil paints, books and school supplies...