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Some 1,500 workers swarmed over her vast bulk, twisting her elegance into a bleak wartime pattern for the Navy. Then one bright, blithe afternoon this week a puff of smoke drifted across her promenade deck. A few minutes later, the deck was completely ablaze. After two and a half years of idling at a Manhattan pier, the Lafayette (as the U.S. had renamed the Normandie), a ship into which the French had poured $60,000,000 and some 2,500,000 man-days of labor, was in danger of turning into a fire-blackened hulk...
...mile event, Tim Coggeshall, formerly on the two-mile relay team, and Don McCaul will be running. Broad-jumpers Saturday will be Ted Bauer and Tom Holyoke, while Bauer and John Bunker will high jump. In the shot put, Dick Pflster and Johnny Shattuck will be on deck for the Crimson, while Mike Ford, Steve Brooks, and Gerry Lenane should monopolize the pole vault...
...they returned from church services. His Jap grudge was fed also by the heroism of his fellow seamen. Proudly he described the spirit and speed with which the men of the Navy went into action-"faster than in target practice"-and in spite of orders to leave burning decks stayed at their anti-aircraft guns. He recalled the magnificent calm of a small doctor who carried a 275-lb. medical chest down two deck ladders during the attack and set up his operating room by himself. Even mess boys were heroes under fire. A British officer, said Captain Lovette, told...
...again from port side. The 9,577-ton tanker canted drunkenly but did not entirely sink. The sub, surfaced after the third shot, made no attempt to pick up survivors. A second officer insisted that his raft was fired on "five or six times" by the sub's deck gun. A fishing boat, U.S. destroyer and Coast Guard cutter picked up the 38 chilled survivors. Said blond, soft-voiced Skipper Hansen: "I thought we were just as safe there as in New York harbor...
Walter Rothschild '42, Number 7 in the 150-pound shell, expects to enlist as a Deck Volunteer Service ensign. Also joining the army will be Richard McAdoe '42, who occupied the Number 5 spot in the Junior Varsity 150's. All expect to complete their degree requirements by midyears...