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...miles away aboard the press ship Appalachian, watchers saw the huge area of Bikini lagoon rise with lightning-like speed and in boiling violence. LSM 60 vanished in the twinkling of an eye. The 26,100-ton battleship Arkansas (the oldest surviving P.S. dreadnaught, dating from 1910), was next nearest the detonation point. She flopped over on her port side and was immediately swallowed...
There were 118 newsmen aboard the press ship Appalachian at Bikini, and the competition was keen. Some of the boys, anxious to get their stories moving ahead of their rivals, wrote "eye-witnessers" in advance. One even faked an "interview" with Bombardier Harold H. Wood, the man who dropped the bomb. ("It was like dropping a cherry on a frosted cake.") And to make it authentic, the reporter added a personal detail: "I was thrown against a bulkhead and my typewriter knocked off the table by the jarring blast...
...special train pulled out of Washington last week with 57 Operations Crossroads correspondents aboard. At San Francisco, where they will be joined by approximately 55 more newsmen, they will board the well-appointed command ship U.S.S. Appalachian, official press ship headquarters. (Some of the 27 reporters assigned to Kwajalein were already there, covering preparations...
...From the Appalachian's special radio teletypes, reporters will be able to send more than 200,000 words a day. Sailing from Hawaii with the "Big Apple" will be her sister ship, the U.S.S. Panamint, with the U.N. delegation, scientific observers and four more newsmen. The newsmen aboard the "Big Apple" and the Panamint will witness The Drop from 15 or 20 miles away, will probably not get their best stories until their ships move in close to look at the devastation later. Of the 169 newsmen converging on Bikini, only three reporters and a half-dozen photographers will...
Aaron Copland: Appalachian Spring (Boston Symphony Orchestra, Serge Koussevitzky conducting; Victor, 6 sides). Reorchestrated and edited, this program music for a longish Martha Graham ballet is perhaps the best thing Aaron Copland has written...