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Within the prison walls of the Aga Khan's shabby villa at Poona death came to Kasturbai Gandhi. On the funeral day the guarded gates opened, briefly, to let aged, withered Mohandas Gandhi follow the body of his wife and co-prisoner to its pyre.
Two months ago a U.S. force of carriers, battleships, cruisers, destroyers, tranports had pounced on the Gilberts, some 500 miles to the south. Then, 2,500 tons of steel had been poured on to the pillboxes and revetments to soften beaches for an amphibious invasion. Even when troops arrived, the...
In many a newspaper shop the only things kept constantly under lock & key are the make-up man's mats of future comics, usually received from syndicates two weeks ahead of publication. What will happen in the next installment of a comic strip is one of newspaperdom's...
These armed LVTs (Landing Vehicles, Tracked) proved themselves in the reef-guarded Gilberts. Other landing craft were halted by the coral rings around the islands. The Alligators (originally developed by Donald Roebling for hurricane rescue work in Florida swamps) kept going, climbed over the barriers, crawled up on the beaches...
Military men who guarded their code of conduct did not take a lenient, civilian view. Their attitude was reflected in their service journals. The Army & Navy Register attributed the "regrettable affair . . .