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Charles Evans Hughes observed his 82nd birthday by taking his daily Washington constitutional with Mrs. Hughes, receiving newspapermen. Said he: "I am as well as can be reasonably expected at my time of life. I am living quietly, and trying to be as cheerful as possible in this war-torn world." He refused to keynote the Republican convention because (since retired Chief Justices can be called for work in the circuit courts) he is still an official magistrate of the Federal bench...
...bodies were strung like rags on the barbed wire around the American beachhead on Bougainville. In the torn jungle beyond, they lay like rotten fruit on the musty ground. While the attack was on-six futile assaults-the Japs had even sent their walking wounded back into action, to charge again. The Americans had mowed them down. At week's end the Japs were withdrawing, possibly to reorganize. In the month since the assault began they had lost 3,508 counted dead-20 for every American killed-and many more wiped , out in the jungle by artillery...
...saint wears a brightly colored mantle. The painting . .. was torn from the wall of a gallery between three and three-fifteen this afternoon. . . . The matter is in the hands of the Police Department...
...three H-hours on three successive days the guns struck. Never before had so many cannon been fired at once; seldom had the devastation been greater. Into the huge gaps torn in the enemy defenses poured the waiting Russian tanks and men. Along with them went the "support artillery"-light field guns and trench mortars-to destroy what men survived the first barrage. Behind, the big guns rumbled...
...morning of the 17th day mail came, the first they had seen. That night cautious whispers summoned the men from their battle-torn houses and cellars. They slung their packs and shuffled out. The relief had moved up. In Cassino soldiers went on fighting house to house, room to room...