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...White climbed the ladder, the Takasago's grinning captain held out his hand to help him aboard. He wanted to cooperate fully in the search, he said; he was on 'his way to bypassed, isolated Wake Island 300 miles to the south, to evacuate 960 sick and 14 wounded Jap soldiers. He offered his visitors coffee, tea, cider, sake and whiskey-all declined by the Americans...
...months Wavell went about India, a British pilgrim in search of understanding, absorbing the atmosphere of the age-old land, trying to feel his way toward solution of its problems. India, he decided last spring, was ripe for self-government. He broached his idea for a modified Cripps Plan (TIME, June 25) to Gandhi and other leaders. Assured of their willingness to consider his scheme, the Viceroy flew to London...
...Chief Cachirere had called on Old Father for help. Years before, a planeload of prospectors had landed on a wilderness airstrip near the chief's village. With necklaces they had lured his pretty daughter into their plane, flown her away. The Chief had set out on foot in search of his kidnapped daughter. Months later, in the distant State of Paraiba, he had found the princess. Rondon, advised of the reunion, had Chief and princess flown back to the grateful tribe...
Needed also are news-hawks to search the by-ways of the Yard to discover the gems that are most surely hidden therein. For the practical men interested in more material pursuits, the busy board throws out the welcome mat and an invitation to delve into the realms of other people's pockets...
When the explosions ended and the fires were out, the chaplains led volunteers in a search for the dead. Next day, 352 men who had died to save their ship were committed to the sea; in all, 393 were killed or missing, 264 wounded...