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...Urgency. How could it be so important to battle for a three-by-eight-mile patch of meadow, jungle and coconut grove in an economically worthless island just across the way from nowhere...
Sitting in a cool grove of rubber trees, the Australians ravenously ate meat loaf with mashed potatoes, peach shortcake, bread and tea. Only then, as the tropic dusk came swiftly, did one Australian speak. "Give me a few days," he said, "and I'll be ready for another go at them...
...Solomon Islands 750 Japanese were trapped, then "massacred" by tanks which ground hundreds of the bodies into the rubble and splinter of a coconut grove. At Milne Bay in New Guinea 120 Japanese were "slaughtered" by U.S. and Australian troops slugging it out for a vital airfield. Far north at Kiska Harbor in the Aleutians, U.S. bombers and escorting fighters flushed land troops and "mowed 'em down like straws." These were actions that the Japanese, fighting just as desperately, could respect. They could also understand the U.S. strategy of kill-or-be-killed...
...then Fant turns up, a love-hungry fugitive, among the tobacco leaves. There are trysts like "that moonless July night, when Fant's whistle had wooed her out to the walnut grove." Two daughters are the result of these whistles. In their wake comes ostracism. For nobody on earth must know that hunted murderer Fant is still alive...
Bonham is no strike-out specialist like Bob Feller, Dizzy Dean or Lefty Grove. He has neither a fireball nor a tantalizing curve. But two weapons he can rely on are control and a freak pitch known as a fork ball (a slow ball that sinks and sometimes breaks away). Oldtimers say Bonham's fork ball can't compare with the one Bullet Joe Bush used to throw for the Athletics and Yankees. Still, used as a change-of-pace ball, Tiny's forker has fooled plenty of batters...