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...blazed for them with flags and dye markers dropped from the plane. Five walked; the sixth, more badly hurt than the rest, was drawn on an improvised sled to the water's edge, where another flying boat picked them up and flew them back to the tender Pine Island. Among them was the Pine Island's commanding officer, Captain Henry H. Caldwell, who had gone along for the ride. Behind them on the icy waste they left the bodies of the first three known Americans to die on the Antarctic continent. Their memorial: their names painted in bright...
...changes his style with his subjects. Last week at a Manhattan gallery he seemed to be trying two at once. Half the paintings on show were piney, briny souvenirs of Kantor's summers at Monhegan, Me. They looked a little as though they had been pasted together with pine needles and pitch. The other half, not so successful, appeared to be woodenish mannequins with several heads, gilded and decorously draped with penciled nets...
...created in direct answer to the Psalmist's question: How shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land? For the land in which the slaves found themselves was strange beyond the . fact that it was foreign. It was a nocturnal land of vast, shadowy pine woods, vast fields of cotton whose endless rows converged sometimes on a solitary cabin, vast swamps reptilian and furtive-a land alive with all the elements of lonely beauty, except compassion. In this deep night of land and man, the singers saw visions; grief, like a tuning fork, gave...
Although none of the young women were exactly up in arms, many felt that it definitely, did not ameliorate their marital chances. "Can't they wait until they get home," asked Misa Mary Jo Kindig, Pine Manor '48. "There are three million extra women in the states right now, and I'm one of them...
...Sunday stroll in Rome's weedy Villa Borghese, three Stars and Stripes staffers compared ambitions, found that they didn't pine to go home after...