Word: midways
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There was conviction in President Robert Maynard Hutchins' voice last winter as he addressed these words to his University of Chicago faculty. The well-dined faculty drifted home from the comfortable South Shore Country Club to the Midway, deep in thought. They kept thinking for three months while the speech remained off the record, a University matter. Last week it was clear that Hutchins' words had started a sizable rebellion in his faculty...
...Navy had been tactically wise in putting its building stress on carriers. Result: Japan's air power in the Pacific islands, its most potent defense after Midway, had been canceled out. The Jap's "unsinkable aircraft carriers" had in a sense become a liability. Aboard its Pacific carriers (more than 50 at last announcement) the U.S. had enough air power to snow under the best defense the enemy could put up from any island. The weakness of the unsinkables had been found. Admiral Takahashi made reluctant admission last February: carriers could be maneuvered, the islands couldn...
...Arms (Goldwyn-RKO). Midway of Up In Arms, a couple of soldiers lean on a rail and gaze moonily down on a deckload of Army nurses. The nurses, the 34 most eye-straining creatures Sam Goldwyn could pick for the job, are sprawled about in revealing pastel playsuits. Says one of the soldiers reverently: "Boy! We didn't have anything like that in the last war." Says the other as devoutly: "We don't have anything like it in this war, either...
...Force Major, Carl Eugen ("Kayo") Wuertele, 30. Major Wuertele (pronounced Wurtell) was at Pearl Harbor when the Japs came over. In 205 combat missions since, he collected five wounds and seven decorations, including the Distinguished Flying Cross. His Flying Fortress, Hel-en-Wings (for his wife, Helen) fought over Midway and Bougainville. In the Solomons, he shot down four Jap planes, had his own left foot nearly shot...
...months in the hospital, went out to the Pacific as a fighter pilot. Lieut. Richard, 27, a fighter pilot in one of the old Yorktown's famous squadrons, was in the scrap in the Coral Sea. He was shot down but survived to fight at the Battle of Midway. Twice decorated, he is now at Jacksonville (Fla.) teaching new airmen how to fight. Lieut. Quentin, 25, who commanded an antiaircraft battery on the Saratoga, is also at Jacksonville. While Richard and Quentin were having a breather in the States, the three eldest Crommelins fought on in the Pacific...