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Between the Ears. Getting the book out is much less trouble to Fahey than it would be to the Navy. He has been on only a few naval vessels since the Navy rejected him on account of a bad eye back in 1919. He thinks visiting ships would ruin his perspective. Some of his material comes from seagoing friends, but most comes from sources available to anyone—the Congressional Record, appropriations bills, newspapers, releases from the Navy Department...
...James Charles Fahey is a burly cheerful, 38-year-old New Yorker who has worked out a nice, peaceful existence for himself, characterized by plenty of leisure...
...Fahey had published a revised, wartime edition of his Ships and Aircraft of the U.S. Fleet, a compendium on the U.S. Navy more complete even than Jane's famed Fighting Ships.* The public grabbed copies for a first look at many heretofore unheard-of-ships. The Navy, whose own information is strewn about in mimeographed charts, blueprints and cumbersome data sheets, ordered copies by the gross to instruct boot and admiral alike on what's in the Navy. Navy men tell Fahey that he saves them a lot of fuss, filing and paper shuffling...
...accurate is Fahey's mental picture of Navy equipment that in reading an appropriations bill he may spot not merely additions to the Fleet, but small changes in ships in service. From a sheet of figures, where an ordinary layman detects only digits, he comes up with funnels, torpedo tubes, extra speed, six new submarines, degaussing gear, winches. But this strange genius takes no notes. His filing system is all between the ears...
Navy Buffs. Putting the information into print is another simple Fahey process, involving no manuscripts or copy. As new statistical data comes in, he has the printer make the changes right in the type, which is still set up from the last printing (first of two previous editions was in 1939) a method long used by telephone companies Worry furrows the Fahey brow only when a new edition nears press time, because not so much as a postage stamp of space must go bare, and he must fill in from memory all the spaces under the pictures and around...