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...Navy and the hard-pressed Marines who had landed on Guadalcanal on Aug. 7 were still hanging on by the skin of their teeth. The carrier Hornet was sunk, and the recently repaired Enterprise was badly damaged. The destroyer Porter was sunk. The brand-new battleship South Dakota was damaged (and her famed Captain Thomas L. Gatch wounded). The cruiser San Juan suffered "considerable" damage. "We sank no enemy vessels . . . but there were partial compensations. Two enemy carriers had been put out of action and four Japanese air groups had been cut to pieces...
Under Japanese noses a strong contingent of U.S. carriers and warships had come secretly-apparently from the Pacific-to join British, French and Dutch units. Last week this brand-new force gave the Japanese the hardest-hitting raid they had seen in this area since the summer...
Lanky, black-haired Howard Robard Hughes, moviemaker, planemaker and speed flyer, shrank the U.S. continent this week. In a brand-new four-motored, 60-passenger Lockheed Constellation he took off from Burbank, Calif, at 3:56 (P.W.T.), landed at Washington, D.C. six hours and 58 minutes later. Average speed: 355 m.p.h. He cracked his own seven-year transcontinental record by 30 minutes, smashed the nine-year-old transport record by 3 hours, 24 minutes...
...picture was battle-worn, oil-flecked. Major Bong told reporters he was going to put on a brand-new photo. Then the P-38 would be ready to fight again...
...also Mrs. Ford's 77th birthday. Mr. Ford spiced his anniversary week with a motor-company promotion (to an executive vice-presidency: his grandson, 26-year-old Henry Ford II) and a personal repudiation (of demagogic Gerald L. K. Smith, who had publicly declared that his brand of nationalism was like Ford's). Said potent Ford Spokesman Harry H. Bennett: "I want to state definitely for Mr. Ford, Charles A. Lindbergh, and myself, if and when Mr. Smith ever attempts to include us with his supporters, nothing is farther from our intentions...