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Good Riddance. In Raleigh, N.C., the state board of education sold a piece of swamp land called Purgatory, hoped to dispose next of neighboring Hell...
...amused when she yelled: "The real war criminals are sitting right in this room. . . . I name Mr. Stettinius, the former international banker." Finally, two guards escorted garrulous Mrs. Waters from the E-shaped hearing table. Cried she : "I'm not afraid of all the devils in hell. What this country needs is a good old-fashioned American revolution...
When war came to the Pacific in 1941, Halsey, a vice admiral and commander of aircraft carriers, Pacific Fleet, was running task, forces of big ships as though they were destroyer divisions: the emphasis was on speed and maneuver. But after his first hell-for-leather raids on the Jap islands - the Gilberts and Marshalls, Wake and Marcus - his force missed the Battle of the Coral Sea by hours. Halsey went back to Pearl Harbor on May 26, 1942, suffering from a skin disease which laid him up for weeks. He missed the Battle of Midway, decisive engagement...
Four or five times a day, Annapolisman Kiefer would get on the bullhorn and plead with his flight-deck crew to hurry up or "that admiral over there will give me hell." When the ship passed through the Canal Zone last fall, he saw to it that nearly all of his 3,000 men got shore liberty at the entrance or the exit. Some had to be carried aboard, but every man made it back to the ship. When the Ti set out from San Diego, only one man deserted...
...flying very low, and he seemed to pull up a bit in an effort to hit the bridge. From the blackness a huge ball of orange flame spouted heavenward. Now the Ti was in great trouble. "She is still shooting, but she is going to sink sure as hell," said an officer beside...