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...first tests, North Carolina shed only superficial skin. Light doors on deck cleaning-gear lockers warped and hung from their hinges in her hot breath, and strip molding from the wardroom overhead dropped down with a jangling crash. But damage-control crews found no major shaking-up. In her first try, North Carolina did better than many an oldtime battlewagon does in target practice...
Battle Stations. Late on the third day out the wind made up and North Carolina rolled gently through a rising sea that whipped plumes of spindrift over her lean sides and wet down the main deck. The light was fading and the moon hung low in the west when a score of newsmen (including Reserve Lieut. Commander Walter Winchell) leaned against the wind and made their way forward to grandstand seats in the bow. Except for a few lights on her foremast, North Carolina was dark, as she and her destroyer escorts had been every night. But inside...
...dark. A white sheet of spray lifted high over the starboard lifelines and swished down on the deck. From the siren on the foremast came a hoarse groan-ten seconds to go. The loudspeaker took up the count. It came faint, thin and broken to the forepeak: "9-7,6-FIRE...
...least two months several hundred thousand people-and unquestionably several dozen Nazi agents-have known that the Illustrious, which had her flight deck bombed to ribbons when taking a convoy through the Mediterranean (TIME, Jan. 27, 1941), had come over to be patched up. They also knew the name of the "undisclosed shipyard" where she was being repaired, and other details...
...work before he goes to the office. He leaves the Munitions building usually around 4:30, never later than 5, goes home to Woodley-the $800,000 estate that he bought when he became Secretary of State in 1929. There the program until dinner is a strenuous hour of deck tennis, often followed by bowling, swimming and sometimes riding, at which as an old cavalryman he excels. Said one of the younger guests of this program: "Next morning when I tried to get out of bed I fell over myself, I was that sore...