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Correspondent Johnson compares many TIME stories to "coral reefs which keep building until they stick out of the water." He investigated reports of oil finds in Texas' Spraberry trend for a year before he felt they had built up enough significance to be reported in TIME (Oct. 8). The news break on "Weedhead," the narcotics agent who posed as a high school student (TIME, Dec. 3), "gave us a chance to use in formation on narcotics we'd long been storing up," said Johnson. Once, while he was standing at the top of the University of Texas tower...
...nose for news" has always been considered a major part of a good reporter's equipment. To that, TIME'S correspondents seem inclined to add: an eye on the mule and a feel for the coral reef...
...called "Tales of the North Atlantic." It is unusual among war memoirs in that its author is a bright, youngish (50) rear admiral of naval aviation with no intention of retiring-he currently commands a carrier division in the Atlantic and Mediterranean from the flag bridge of the Coral...
...Coral Seedbed. Volume VII was to have been called "The Conquest of Micronesia"; Morison had to put the reconquest of the Aleutians in somewhere, and his present gazetteer title was the result. But once he washes his hands of the melted snow of the North, Morison launches into the great drive across the Central Pacific, beginning in the Gilberts. Here was the testing ground for all future amphibious operations, the sine qua non of Japan's defeat...
...recovered, suffer in vain. Every man there, lost or maimed, saved at least ten of his countrymen as the Navy plunged deep into enemy waters and sailed irresistibly through Micronesia. All honor, then, to the fighting heart of the United States Marine. Let that small stretch of coral sand . . be remembered as terrible indeed, but glorious, and the seedbed for victory...