Word: 151the
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...details of two U.S. victories—the Battle of the Coral Sea, May 4 to 8, and the Battle of Midway, June 3 to 7 threw much light on the current balance of gain & loss in the Pacific. Tales of U.S. skill, heroism and success also provided the first clear look at naval warfare, 1942 style...
...level at the massed Jap cruisers, destroyers, troop transports, auxiliaries. The attacking pilots swore and yelled into their phones in excitement. Some of their targets sank at anchor; others, aflame, died on the harbor beaches. From three attacks that day, every U.S. plane returned to the mother carriers—the Lexington and another, unnamed—waiting 100 miles south of Tulagi with a covering force of cruisers and destroyers. _ Two mornings later, scout-bombers sighted a Japanese carrier-cruiser force, about 180 miles north of the U.S. force. Attacking U.S. pilots soon saw a standard Japanese naval pattern: a big carrier...
...Augustus E. John, famed artist-rebel and onetime gypsy-lover—the coveted Order of Merit. Once asked to take in evacuees, John said: "I want black ones. . . . Like them better than whites...
...rough stage, with the windowless cabin in the background, looked synthetic. The linsey-woolsey costumes looked as if they had just come out of attic trunks. But the music—the singing, fiddling and twanging of guitars, banjos and dulcimers—was the real McCoy: mountain music, with rough edges as unpolished as stones. On the hills near Ashland, Ky., country folk and tourists gathered this week for Ashland's twelfth annual American Folk Song Festival...
...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...