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...Collier's last week, Chairman Vinson of the House Naval Affairs Committee reported that TNT depth charges must explode within 15 feet of the hull in order to rupture a modern submarine...
Some of the businessmen who will attend: Walter S. Montgomery, president of Spartan Mills, Spartansburg, S.C. (cotton goods); Meyer Kestnbaum, executive vice president and treasurer of Hart Schaffner & Marx; Noble A. Cathcart, assistant to the president of Crowell-Collier Publishing Co.; Roy E. Larsen, president of Time Inc.; Byron Gray, president of International Shoe Co.; H. Leslie Atlass, vice president of Columbia Broadcasting System; Joseph Hazen, vice president of Warner Bros. Also represented is labor by A.F. of L.'s Arnold Zander, C.I.O.'s Richard Deveraux...
...ships they were building. One of his firm beliefs was the necessity of multiple compartmentation and automatic sliding doors in bulkheads to make ships as unsinkable as was humanly possible. He was deeply impressed by the tragedy of the Empress of Ireland, which had collided with a Norwegian collier in 1914 and with water pouring into her hold had capsized. He thought such accidents need...
Condé Nast was not born to fashion. He was born in New York of a French mother and German father, grew up in St. Louis, went to Georgetown University, where he managed the baseball team. Classmate Robert Collier hired him to write advertising for Collier's. Nine years later, age 35, risen to business manager, he had built up the magazine's circulation, fattened its skinny advertising, and was making $50,000 a year. That was when he quit...
Longest ashore was the Montreal Standard's Wallace Reyburn, who had six and a half hours of it, finally had to swim off to a torpedo boat. Collier's Quentin Reynolds saw the battle from a destroyer, flagship of the raiding fleet, Associated Press's Drew Middleton from a 100-foot launch. Other U.S. correspondents: National Broadcasting's John McVane, the New York Sun's Gault MacGowan. MacGowan, a veteran roving reporter and soldier of fortune, had the unluckiest tale, got it through to the Sun, a day late, only after a long struggle with...