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...creator of the well-known "Varga Girl" will make his decision on the basis of photographs of Navy wives and sweethearts submitted by officers of each the six companies now midway through their "ready for sea" training at the Supply Corps School...
Unruffled by blasts from Buenos Aires' Luna Park and the University of Chicago's Midway, unshaken by waverings and defections in the ranks of his own followers. John Dewey at 84 stands rock-firm in his conviction that only through scientific inquiry can man become educated and thus free...
Better Half. Midway between being an old and newtimer is Helen Sobel. She is a tiny, chic, 34-year-old blonde who looks like Gertrude Lawrence, always wears blue rimmed glasses because of severe myopia. Last week she increased her lead in the race for the William E. McKenney Trophy, awarded to the year's top scorer of masters points. She won the cup in 1941 and 1942, lost it last year to her favorite bridge partner, Charles H. Goren. This year her prospects look good again-she has 194 points, 22 points ahead of her closest rival, George...
Battlefields or no battlefields, the time to start the first trickle of reconversion was already past. Ever since the 1942 victory at Midway, Washington desks had bulged with reconversion plans. Now, with V-day much nearer, the plans were still in the desks...
...Saipan, Vice Admiral Chuichi Nagumo made his honorable exit. Onetime hero of the Empire, Nagumo commanded the carriers in the Pearl Harbor attack, lived to see his fame dimmed when he lost four of five carriers in the Battle of Midway. After Saipan fell, U.S. soldiers found his corpse. He had, quite obviously, committed harakiri...