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Says Professor C. J. Van der Horst: "The baboon is functionally so closely related to man that scientists in other parts of the world would regard it as a great forward step . . . if they could experiment on baboons instead of . . . cats, dogs, mice, guinea pigs and rabbits." Science has already given the monkeys stomach ulcers, will soon use them for work on diseases of women and malnutrition...
...From New Guinea a convoy of cruisers, destroyers and amphibious craft, led by Vice Admiral Thomas C. Kinkaid, Southwest Pacific naval chief, slid into the night, crossed the waters to Cape Gloucester on New Britain's western tip. Early in the morning after Christmas, naval guns pummeled the dim Jap shore, waves of Army Liberators and Mitchells raked the enemy's defenses, laid a screen of TIME, JANUARY 3, 1944 smoke bombs. Minutes later the first landing barge hit the beach. Out spilled U.S. Marines, tough veterans of Guadalcanal, under the command of Major General William H. Rupertus...
...beachheads the Marines plunged along jungle trails to the main Jap positions. At Cape Gloucester the Japs had hacked a pattern of runways through the coconut groves, had built a staging point for barges bound from Rabaul, on New Britain's northeast tip, to outposts in northern New Guinea...
...American attack ruptured this supply line, gave the U.S. Navy dominance in the waters between New Britain and New Guinea. But General MacArthur's communique made clear that the chief prize was Cape Gloucester's runways: in Allied hands, they "will shortly bring the Kavieng-Admiralty Islands area within reach of our land-based air attack...
...staff car rolled to a dockside some where in New Guinea, discharged a four-star passenger. Columns of green-clad U.S. soldiers boarding transports recognized Douglas MacArthur's plain shirt and trousers, braided cap, plump cigar. Brigadier General Julian Cunningham walked over, saluted...