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...buyer: Lipsett, Inc., a Jamestown, N.Y. steel scrap firm. Lipsett intends to cut the Normandie down to the waterline, then raise the hull and break it up. Total cost of the operation: between...
Theater Guild on the Air (Sun. lop.m., ABC). Josephine Hull and Fred Stone in You Can't Take It With...
While Phase II continues, there are others anxious to get themselves on record. Henry Morgenthau Jr., Dutchess County neighbor of F.D.R., is gathering material for a book. Also in the works: memoirs of Cordell Hull, and of the late Harry Hopkins, both scheduled for 1947. Jim Farley, who in 1938 got $68,500 for a not-too-revealing autobiography, is known to have a more critical book in mind, but is in no hurry; he wants to see what others tell first. So does Anna Roosevelt Boettiger, who says "I think I will just wait." The late President himself, according...
...island had been blown across the deck. Like other vessels in the inner ring, she had been swung around so that her bow faced the detonation point. But the force which had done this had finished the Sara. The only vessel in the target array with a triple-skinned hull, she had nevertheless been ripped open below the waterline. Slowly she settled, listing ever more sharply; seven hours later the 33,000-ton carrier sank...
...afloat because of radioactivity in the water. It was another warning of what navies in the atomic age would have to face in insidious, invisible death if their ships escaped the bomb's first blast. The other chief lesson of Test Baker was that even so stout a hull as the Saratoga's was like matchwood if a bomb burst within half a mile. Transports and destroyers with much thinner skins, but twice as far away from the bomb, suffered hardly...