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Simultaneously Scripps-Howard news coverage of Senator Burton Kendall Wheeler's isolationist crusade fell into more normal perspective. Senator Wheeler's attack on Wendell Willkie as "the intrepid Trojan horse of the Republican Party"-a likely candidate for the front page a few days earlier-appeared quietly on page 17 of the New York World-Telegram. And word was reputed to have gone down to Publisher Howard's editors to lay off hereafter such features as the identification-tag melodrama...
Sister of the Yorktown and Enterprise, smaller than the 33,000-ton Saratoga and Lexington, bigger than the Ranger and Wasp, Hornet is one of five carriers ordered before the U. S. decided on a two-ocean Navy. The other four (Kearsarge, Essex, Bon Homme Richard and Intrepid) are on the way. After them will come seven more, all ordered (and all under construction). Barring a war, in 1945-46 the U. S. will have 18 carriers. If Britain should fall this spring and surrender its fleet intact to Germany, the U. S. Navy's carrier equipment would...
Unlucky Larry Lader '41, was a fugitive from the strong arm of the intrepid Cambridge Police Department for three hours yesterday, as F. Cameron Ludwig '42, fumed and raged. His car blocked in a driveway on Plympton Street by a black Ford coupe, Ludwig was frustrated in his attempts to remove the obstacle by means of a jack, magic, or brute strength...
...purpose of the gathering will be to acquaint the intrepid trail-blazers-to-be with the hazards of the upstream passage so that the lesser men will be afforded an early opportunity to drop out. The remainder will be addressed by the Flag Officers on the ideal and purpose of the trip: to pioneer a maritime rapprochement between Harvard and Wellesley...
...Publisher Milton proudly slapped a. four-column enlargement of a letter: ''I congratulate you upon your determination to continue publication of a newspaper in Chattanooga. This resolution on your part exemplifies . . . courage of the highest order in the face of obstacles which could have crushed a less intrepid spirit. . . . Franklin D. Roosevelt...