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...Guinea surveys appear to have been completed in 1849. Captain Stanley died the next year and probably at that time his name was first attached to the mountains...
...wish I could round out this report by telling you the latest news about Henry B. Cole, our native correspondent on the Guinea Coast, but we last heard from him three months ago in Monrovia. He has worked for TIME three years now, sending us all sorts of unexpected stories and interesting sidelights on the echoes of World War II in his bailiwick. In addition he is Associate Editor of "Who's Who in Liberia" and the author of something he calls "A Classic: God and the Negro"-and all in all we have grown so fond...
Beside his bungalow, in a tropical garden riotous with frangipani, hibiscus and flame trees, sat Douglas MacArthur. In one hand he held messages from the New Guinea front, in the other a quarter-head of green lettuce flown into New Guinea from the Australian mainland. As he read he munched, as he munched he reflected...
...began: the culmination of his first successful offensive was in sight; the fall of Buna might come at any time. Buna is merely a coconut-fringed village of three houses and five huts. But with nearby Gona taken this week, Buna was the only Jap haven left in New Guinea east of the Lae-Salamaua area...
...MacArthur's enemy, Lieut. General Tomatore Horii, conqueror of Rabaul, who was desperate (he was almost captured fortnight ago in the New Guinea jungle). Now General Horii knew what it was like to strive mightily to reinforce battered troops when they were hemmed in on three sides (last week the fresh Americans took over the fiercest fighting assignments from the jungle-weary Australians). For his striving the Emperor's General lost a cruiser and two destroyers, blown to pieces by U.S. and Australian pilots...