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...GUINEA AND THE MARIANAS (435 pp.) - Samuel Eliot Morison- Little, Brown...
Suddenly, in the four months from April through July 1944, U.S. forces take giant steps to victory. MacArthur leapfrogs nearly 1,000 miles along the New Guinea coast to threaten the Philippines. The Navy moves into the Marianas, 3,500 miles from Pearl Harbor, strips the Japanese fleet of its air arm in a great battle off Saipan and sets up new advance bases. And the Marines and Army take Saipan, Tinian and Guam...
Murder or Not? Vercors' question comes up when British scientists discover in New Guinea a large tribe of cliff-dwellers. Paranthropus ("tropi" for short) is a queer chap, human in that he smokes his meat and buries his dead; simian in many of his physical characteristics; a bit of both in that, though normally erect in stance, he is happy to drop on all fours and thunder off at a gallop. Australian wool interests hope that the "tropis" will prove to be a dream-come-true-workers who can be trained to operate a loom without benefit of paycheck...
...This one came for guinea hen and a good-humored exchange of campaign reminiscences...
...rice) and taff (potatoes). Their top Grecian still has the privilege of delivering a special address to each new British sovereign, and each year the whole school marches to the residence of the Lord Mayor to receive for each boy a brand-new shilling and for each Grecian a guinea...