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...Pacific war against the ground-hugging Japanese, fire has become a primary U.S. weapon. From Tokyo to Okinawa to the Philippines to New Guinea Japanese burned in it last week...
...these men are different from those who were fighting the Japanese in the jungles of New Georgia and New Guinea two years ago. More than 50% of the names and serial numbers are different, because of replacements. But even where the names and serial numbers are the same, the men have changed. Outfits which were green as grass in the Solomons and New Guinea have now been hardened and heartened by victories. They have cohesion, esprit de corps and battlewise leadership...
...Cavalry jumped into the war on the Admiralty Islands north of New Guinea. They swept the Japs off Momote Airfield on Los Negros and beat off fanatical counterattacks...
Sneers & Jeers. In 1889 Charles-Edouard Brown-Sequard, eminent French physiologist, announced at the age of 72 that he had succeeded in revitalizing himself by brewing the mashed-up sex glands of dogs and guinea pigs in a salt solution and injecting the mixture under his skin. An audience of distinguished French scientists listened spellbound to details of the miraculous transformation. But Sequard's new lease on life lasted just one month; then he began to wither. When he died in 1894, he and the potentialities of the male hormone were both badly discredited...
...Navy!" Despite all this, the world-according-to-Forester would be different today if Hornblower had not suddenly debarked at the port of Riga and, waving his zoo-guinea gold-hilted sword, led a "flank attack [that] thwarted Bonaparte's schemes to conquer the world." "To Commodore Sir Horatio Hornblower and the British Navy!" cried the Tsar, raising a noggin of Admiralty rum. "To the Navy," responded Hornblower, "guardian of the liberties of the world...