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Letter for a Great Library. Between raids, 38-year-old Major Putnam penciled a report in his notebook, tore it out, sent it along in the patrol boat as his last report. As a Marine of 18 years' service, afloat and ashore, he must have been aware that he was adding another classic to the library of impersonal letters written by leatherneck officers since the first of the Corps sailed with John Paul Jones...
...Christmas Day, the Japanese returned: 60 bombers escorted by 18 fighters. But this time the volunteers were veterans. Eleven out of 18 enemy fighters, nine out of 60 bombers tumbled to earth. One American, ringed by Japanese planes, zoomed at the enemy, sideswiped a Japanese O-type, tore off its wing and sent it to death, went on to land safely...
...victory also had its sad aspect when little Joe Romano got the worst of a struggle for the ball with Captain Stub Pearson of the Indians. The flashy forward tore a ligamont in his knee near the end of the first half and will be out of action for the next three or four weeks. He was treated for the injury Saturday night and will be treated again today...
...Boston, Harold L. J. Sturtevant, kicked out of the Navy when he tore a swastika from the German consular office in San Francisco last January, applied for reinstatement...
...anywhere, a horrible example was Mayor LaGuardia's own New York City. City Hall, where the Little Flower was trying to be mayor of the nation's biggest city while he was also heading OCD, was in an uproar. Workmen piled into the mayor's offices, tore up floors, laid wires, erected parti tions. Women in blue-grey uniforms, brass buttons and gold epaulets snapped salutes at one another and the mayor, twinkled off in all directions with Mr. LaGuardia's orders...