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Skippers of the dumpy mail boats which ply between Fishguard, Wales and Rosslare, Eire are very well acquainted with Tuskar Rock, some seven miles off the latter port. Tuskar means peat spade, but in the old days Tuskar Rock dug only graves in the water. Now Tuskar Light is a 110-foot beacon visible all the way from Wales...
...Manila the air force was standing by; naval leaves were canceled. Leaves were canceled at Corregidor, the strong rock fortress guarding Manila Bay. Permanent blackout was ordered at the naval base at Cavite, at Olongapo, where the Navy has been mysteriously building. All British and U.S. forces in the Far East were put on the alert. In Manila naval messages jammed the radio, forced civil officials to use commercial cables. It was Manila's biggest war scare, and as the week went on, it grew...
...constructing an air base, it rained so constantly that they had to lay concrete runways under a tent-a 600-ft.-long marquee which they rolled along the site as the concrete finally dried, hardened. On the muskeg moss plains of Annette they filled in foundations for runways with rock dynamited out of distant quarries and hauled laboriously over the mucky wasteland...
Under these conditions in Yakutat, Kodiak, Sitka, Anchorage, from Annette out along Alaska's trunklike Aleutian Islands to Dutch Harbor in Unalaska, men were desperately at work excavating, blasting rock, building a string of fortifications. When the big job was done, the U.S. would have a 2,000-mile flagstone path toward Asia and a natural rampart bristling with man-made ramparts...
...football's Saturday-night round-table exhumed many a Zuppke yarn. Bob Zuppke never lost his "Dutch brogue," is nearly as famed a raconteur as coach. His pet butt used to be Notre Dame's Knute Rockne, of whom he once said: "Everybody vants to know vat Rock puts in his football besides vind...