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Where Is Koga? On both Choiseul and Bougainville, Allied landings were made on relatively undefended beaches, near but not too near Japanese strongholds. Allied amphibious forces under the command of Rear Admiral Theodore S. Wilkinson did their job unmolested except by a few hit-&-run air attacks. Enemy airfields in the area had been literally knocked out by a sustained air campaign. By week's end, the Japanese Fleet had not reacted to the advance in any way. General Douglas MacArthur, a relative newcomer to the delights of naval warfare, said: "If the Jap Fleet comes out I will...
...Tacks and nails were all made by hand: Thomas Jefferson kept a dozen nail makers busy at Monticello all the time, and it took as many man-hours to forge the nails for a house as it did to build it. Jeremiah Wilkinson's 1776 "invention"-putting a dozen headless tacks in a vise and hammering them all with one blow-was the talk of Rhode Island, and it was not until 1850 that a machine was invented to make "horse nails" tough enough to supplant the blacksmith...
Furthermore, the No. 1 amphibious U.S. commander in the South Pacific was somewhere last week on an undisclosed assignment. When Rear Admiral Theodore Wilkinson took over amphibious operations in the Solomons, he relieved Rear Admiral Richmond Kelly Turner. "Terrible" Turner, who carried out the landings on Guadalcanal, the Russells and New Georgia, would be expected to pop up again suddenly and violently, probably somewhere along the flank of the Jap's easternmost defenses...
...Eleven-year-old Richard Miller of Pittsburgh ran away from home to see some ball games, turned up in Manhattan prepared to watch the Dodgers; ready for any emergency, he carried a bat, two baseballs, two catcher's mitts, two fielder's gloves. Billy Sykes and Harriet Wilkinson, both ten and barefoot, were taken into custody 60 miles from their Los Angeles homes by a deputy sheriff, who thus foiled their third attempted elopement...
...year Republican voting trend continued. After 16 years as Mayor of Baltimore, ruddy, cherubic Howard Wilkinson Jackson, 65, last week found himself out of a job. Democrat Jackson, who had kept a profitable insurance business on the side, was soundly trounced (20,000 votes) by Republican Theodore Roosevelt McKeldin, 42, fireman's son, lawyer, spellbinder. All other Democrats on the ticket were elected, but Republicans had won the best flitch of political bacon. Democrats, who have lost the mayoralty only twice before since 1900, blamed the defeat on 1) the accumulated enmities which pile up on any longtime officeholder...