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...Search for Victory. Meanwhile, 40 Jap carrier planes were hammering away at Dutch Harbor. Anti-aircraft fire and planes drove them off, knocked down some. The rest were probably lost, because the attack on the task force had sent the carriers scurrying out of range...
Wendell Willkie's quotation from William McKinley (TIME, Feb. 22) started me on a little political sleuthing in search of half-remembered words which I finally found in the Preface to Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Napoleon III in Italy, dated Rome...
...practically a Japanese monopoly before Pearl Harbor. Japs quietly got much of it from seaweed beds along the U.S. Pacific coast, taking care that no one else knew the location. The University of California has now discovered four species of California seaweed rich in agar, ending the frantic search for the secret Jap beds...
...Yellowstone Park's two elk herds, thinned by 7,230 during the present winter, are still a problem. Wyoming's rising moose population is mooching down on civilization in search of food. One militant moose recently held a group of children imprisoned in a schoolhouse for hours; three other moose had to be shot by a rural mail carrier before they would give him right...
...best-known lieutenant commander had been put on inactive duty. Michigan's bitter Congressman Clare Hoffman, who had often been Winchellacked, chortled: "No longer will Navy men wince at the spectacle of a Broadway gossiper sporting a lieutenant commander's stripes while he snoops about nightclubs in search of sexy tidbits...