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Then the Japanese began pouring reinforcements down from Truk, their South Pacific naval center. General Douglas Mac-Arthur's announcements indicated that a total of 53 warships and eleven supply ships might be on the way. Identification of enemy naval types by U.S. aviators occasionally leaves something to be desired; and last week's communiques on the reconnaissance reports may very well have duplicated each other. But it was clear that the commander of Japan's Combined Fleet, Mineichi Koga, had been stung into action. He sent forward to Rabaul substantial cruiser forces in support of troop...
...Allied mission is headed by steel-grey Lieut. General F. N. Mason-MacFar-lane ("Mason Mac"), Governor of Gibraltar; its Chief of Staff is 42-year-old U.S. Brigadier General Maxwell D. Taylor. The mission, the King and Badoglio all profess to have Italy's best interests at heart, but insist that their actions be judged first by the immediate necessity of driving out the Germans. Their joint plan is to broaden the flimsy base of the Badoglio Government by including in it the top leadership of the six political parties which have survived or sprung...
MacCool could also hit. To qualify for the Fianna, a band of soldiers in the service of Cormac Mac Art, Ireland's illustrious Third-Century king, he was buried to the knees as a target for nine warriors. With a shield and hazel stick, Finn knocked their spears aside...
...soccer teams from the Royal Navy Ficol Air Arm stationed at Squantum invaded Harvard last Saturday and emerged with a victory and a tie over Jack Mac-Donald's green soccer squad. The games were played at Soldiers Field beyond the stables, before an audience of over 50 British sailors who came up from Squantum to watch their team...
...second day the Old Fisherman began calling Guide MacKenzie "Mac." But when a big Catalina flying boat roared in with a new arrival there was a touch of formality. "Mr. Harry Hopkins," said the Old Fisherman, "Meet Mr. Donald MacKenzie." The fishing got even better: "You certainly know the holes for these beauties," he told Guide MacKenzie. All in all, around 100 bass were taken (biggest: 4 lb. 2 oz.), five pike and pickerel. The Old Fisherman got most of them. Some others who wet a hook: Admiral William D. Leahy, Vice Admiral Wilson Brown, Major General Edwin M. Watson...