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...fast enough to catch Milton Gerson in his room at any time of day or night when he hasn't taken his shoes off . . . A fool proof invention on that would cover the hat changing problem. A quick presto! changoo! affair with three colors . . . Escalators to the top deck of all dormitories for us short-winded lads, . . . A phone that is not within two feet of a main entrance of a dorm . . . Some real music to accompany the movies on Tuesday nights instead of the excuse offered for the same that accompanies the Wild Westerns and G-Men films seen...
Flying Officer Brant Howell of Manitoba turned his Sunderland from a probable "kill" to attack a surfaced sub with his guns. The sub's deck gun fired back, When the U-boat crash-dived, Howell saw the abandoned Nazi gun crew floundering in the sea. They soon had their submarine for company. Reported Howell: "Four depth charges exploded within a few feet of the stern and the last we saw of the U-boat was six feet of the afterpart sticking out almost vertically from the water...
...reserve to stave off a Tech sprint and pick up some water in the last three-quarters of a mile. Tech began its sprint shortly before it reached the Mass. Avenue bridge, and as the two crews swept under the structure the Engineers had crept to within a deck length of the Crimson...
...Alazon Bay represented a meeting of two adventurous minds-his and the President's. Only three weeks before, Henry Kaiser had laid on the White House desk the plans for wholesale merchantman-into-carrier conversion. Many an old-fashioned Navy man frowned: slow, small carriers (flight deck: 514 ft.) tote few planes, often must catapult them when there is no strong wind to help. And the pros felt no certainty that the small flat tops, even in droves, would be the answer to the U-boat...
...unruffled and competent reporter stands on the deck, at the airport, at the Secretary's elbow, with his pencil working on the wad of copy paper, his sharp eye on the crowd, on the building about to fall, on the halfback faking and spinning. The good correspondent goes overside with the troops, crawls up the ridge to the command post, cajoles himself into the bomber, bums a ride in the General's jeep. The photographer is there with his tripod, his fast-action film; he is there with a cloud filter for the dogfight in the stratosphere; there...