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...Boise made out six enemy ships [the first spotter had missed one]. . . . Captain Moran laid his main batteries on the leading heavy ship . . . then he gave the order to fire. In a matter of seconds the first target was lit up. ... The Boise's guns hit her again & again for four minutes and she sank, going down by the bow with her screws still turning...
...Sixty seconds later the shifty Boise was concentrating everything her guns would throw on a fourth target. . . . This contact lasted four minutes and the Boise took a hit from an eight inch shell and several hits from five inch shells. The captain's cabin was demolished. A direct hit put one of her five-inch guns out of action. But in short order the enemy, which had been burning very brightly, exploded violently several times and was not seen again. . . . For two minutes the Boise had no target. Then fires were observed burning on an enemy destroyer...
...prevailing present types of city housing-tenements and single-family houses-both are vulnerable to bombing: tenements because they make an unmissable target; small houses, because it is too costly to build strong shelters for them. The C.I.A.M.'s skyscraper houses would at once offer smaller horizontal areas as targets and provide impregnable, easily accessible shelters...
Tokyo Radio complained that Brigadier General Claire Chennault's U.S. flyers in China fought unfairly: they zipped into target areas, dropped their bombs and zipped right out again before the Japs had a chance to fight back. Unless Chennault changed his tactics, said the Japs, they would take stern measures...
This monumental exhibition represented 17 years of Painter Tchelitchew's work. Chief target of ahs and bahs was the artist's most recent work a 78½ ft.-by-84¾ ft. canvas entitled Hide-and-Seek. Some spectators thought it looked like a gigantic omelet composed, not of eggs, but of innumerable infants. Others thought the picture looked like a vast translucent cranium containing a number of babies enveloped in autumn leaves, some of the children still foetal, one blue-veined crimson hydrocephaloid boy on its stomach, another urinating. Persistent spectators sooner or later discovered that Hide...