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...fifth wave milled around in what had turned into broad daylight. Now the naval gunfire mounted to an unbelievable crescendo of thunder, smoke and fire. Then came the planes, dropping big bombs, little bombs, incendiary bombs. Wave after wave after wave of torpedo-bombers and dive-bombers from carriers crossed and crisscrossed Betio. Offshore, the rough sea tossed the Higgins craft and drenched the Marines and their weapons...
With flashbulbs exploding, Lady Louis Mountbatten and Ambassadors Winant and Biddle in a flag-draped box, and Noel Coward, Bea Lillie and mobs of servicemen packing the house, it was a gala opening. It was also a demonstrative one: time after time cascading applause stopped the show. Loudest thunder was for Composer Berlin, who followed a husky rendering of Oh, How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning with one husky chorus of White Christmas. When the audience still would not let him go, he gave them a new bit of alien corn called My British Buddy, which...
...split his body in two. "Each new stroke lit up an electric bulb behind his eyeballs and caused an explosion inside his skull. He heard himself burst into long, savage screams, felt his bladder empty itself, his stomach throw up its contents over the table. There was lightning and thunder, the splitting of skin, the convulsions of choking from the grimy sponge they had thrust into his mouth to silence him." As he felt himself pass out, his thin, fading voice muttered: "I have nothing to confess...
...secondary battery smashed one Jap destroyer then another. Other U.S. ships were firing salvos, but the Helena chose to use "continuous fire." Her gunflames flared from stem to stern. In the brief moment left of her life she loosed perhaps a thousand rounds from main batteries alone and her thunder could be heard for miles...
Liberal Education. Professor Cross's book contains dozens of anecdotes of great Yale teachers- of William Graham Sumner, who used to thunder at his classes ; of Thomas Lounsbury and Henry Beers, who fought to make English literature a respect able study in a university that believed only in Latin, Greek and mathematics; of Arthur ("Waterloo") Wheeler, whose lectures on the French Revolution still kindle the memory of men who studied at Yale in the '90s; of Yale teacher-presidents from Porter to Hadley; and, finally, of Henry Canby and other younger...