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...most battered officer in the Navy-he had long ago busted his left ankle and split his kneecap playing football, and he had a sort of double elbow on his left arm from an old injury (a fellow pilot dove a seaplane at him and hit the arm with a wingtip float). On the Ti they used to say of Dixie: "He's got so much metal in him the ship's compass follows him when he walks across the deck...
...Cripple Creek, Colo., Herman Conrow Jr., 36, discharged from the Army in November, leased a gold mine. By last week he had struck it rich, taken out $25,000, was going strong, with nothing to lose-since on the "split-check" leasing plan, a miner invests only his time, surrenders half his take. Miner Conrow, too, had learned his trade before the war. Looking at the returned U.S. serviceman last week, his neighbors concluded that he, like other new small businessmen, was ignoring the "everything-for-the-boys" oratory, preferring to set his own course, toward his own goal...
...organization itself and the regional systems. In our franker moments, we have always recognized that we belong to a regional system and that our safety lay in that same Colossus of the North, who was bound to protect us against aggression from outside the hemisphere. Now the world is split into legalized spheres of influence, and at San Francisco we were actually in a position of fighting for this regionalism which, in a way, we have long opposed...
...last-ditch Japanese defenders were split into pockets no more than a thousand yards square; Fleet Admiral Nimitz announced that organized resistance had ended. There was mopping-up still to be done: a few hundred of the enemy held out with machine guns, rifles and grenades. In the final pockets many of the enemy were killed; some committed hara-kiri with grenades or by jumping off the cliffs; some surrendered...
Lacking one important asset of a top-grade outfielder-speed-Ott made up for this deficit by learning to get the jump on a fly ball the split-second it leaves the bat. He is the master of three outfielding arts: 1) on a long fly ball over his head, he takes one look, turns his back and digs for the spot where the ball will drop; 2) he has patiently acquired the knack of picking caroms off the tricky right-field wall at the Polo Grounds; 3) his buggy-whip arm has enabled him to set a league record...