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...after TIME hit the newsstands with the story Williams received a long distance telephone call from the U.S. Navy supervisor of shipbuilding at Gulf Shipbuilding Co., Chickasaw, Ala. The Navy, which no longer needed it, had just the ship for him: a new type LSD (Landing Ship Dock), almost completed, and available to the highest bidder. Williams bid high and got it. The LSD, now being converted, was bigger and better (e.g., it is equipped with the latest and best steam turbines) than the ferry he had ordered, and, Williams figures, puts him eight months ahead of schedule. The deal...
...Count Galeazzo Ciano. Excerpt: " 'Well, Ribbentrop,' I asked him . . . 'what do you want? The Corridor or Danzig?' 'Not any longer,' and he fixed on me those cold Musée Grévin eyes of his. 'We want war.' " (In the dock, Ribbentrop shook his head in denial...
...trio in the dock saluted jauntily, broke into broad smiles as they marched out. Soon telephones were jangling joyously all over Delhi. Crowds gathered in the streets. In a friend's jampacked house the three patriots (not traitors now) were garlanded with flowers. Said they in a formal statement: "This has been a victory for India...
...name of Martin Bormann suddenly popped into the news from Germany last week. It was reported, discussed and then denied, that the man Hitler chose to witness his political will had finally been found in the British zone. He was wanted in the prisoners' dock at Nürnberg. In this glaring end of Naziism, as in its dark beginnings, Martin Bormann was still a shadowy figure...
When luck has been good, the boat churns back to dock about 5 p.m., flying a white flag from an outrigger, denoting that a sailfish has been landed. The first shore stop is usually Pflueger's taxidermist, whose charge for mounting sailfish is up from $10 to $12 a foot. The small-fry albacore, kingfish, bonito, dolphin and snappers (averaging from 6 to 12 Ibs.) are mostly extra gravy for the skipper-to sell, filleted...