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...mustache and thick-lensed glasses. He published his first volumes of verse when he was 17, wrote John Brown's Body as a Guggenheim Fellow in 1926-27. This 100,000-word verse narrative sold over 180,000 copies. When the U.S. entered World War II, Benet was midway through another book-length narrative poem about frontier life; abandoning it for the duration, he produced such notable radio scripts as Your Army (for the This Is War series) and Dear Adolf. The President read Benet's Prayer for United Nations on his Flag Day broadcast last year...
Comparisons, with the Battles of Britain and Midway were overblown. Said Robert Lovett, Assistant Secretary of War for Air: "No one ought to get too excited-it's only one round of a continuing battle. lt was like a football coach's dream, in which every blocker takes out his man and the ball carrier crosses the line standing up. . . . Mass air attack by a team, that's what did the trick. The lesson is that if you use air power properly you get dividends...
Yale grabbed an early lead of 8 to 3, but with Hyde hitting on five successive foul shots, the Crimson moved ahead midway in the period 13 to 12, and led 23 to 17 at the half...
There was embarrassed silence when she quoted the Chinese proverb: "It takes little effort to watch the other fellow carry the load"; and when she made her most pointed thrust: "Midway and the Coral Sea are . . . merely steps in the right direction...
Died. Marine Corps Colonel Harold Douglas Shannon, 50, commander of the ground forces in the Battle of Midway; of pneumonia; in San Diego. A much-decorated World War I veteran, he won the D.S.M. for his Midway defense. Of the four-day battle he observed last fall: "The only Japs that landed on Midway were dead ones...