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There was even $43 million in the bill for the Navy's controversial 65,000-ton, $189 million supercarrier, from which the Navy hopes to fly atom-carrying bombers in competition with the Army's B-36. And this week the keel was laid without ceremony at Newport News, Va. (One flying admiral put the case for the A-bomb carrier in horsy terms: "You don't ride your racehorse to the Kentucky Derby; you carry...
...pretty girl, but she was also on the back cover, only upside down, and with four eyes and four eyebrows. Inside Pageant were six pages (also upside down) revealing the sensational now-it-can-be-told story of "Garson Inconnu, the four-year-old who helped build the atom bomb," and other startling tales. On the other 156 pages of the magazine were conventional, right-side-up pictures and stories...
...weird make-up and atom story were to celebrate April Fools' Day. Though the stunt was hoary, Pageant's 32-year-old Editor Harris Shevelson thought it had worked well enough for the Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung in prewar days to give the alien corn a try. For his nonsense section, Shevelson had even lifted one old'gag directly from the Zeitung: pictures of "man's first attempt to fly by his own lung power...
Reaction to the April Fool stunt was mostly favorable-though a few readers berated Pageant for joking about such a serious matter as the atom bomb. Said Editor Shevelson: "I hope the April Fool issue will become an annual thing...
...animals exposed to the atom-bomb blast and radiation in the 1946 Operation Crossroads, none won greater fame than Pig No. 311. A wriggly, 50-lb. shoat, No. 311 was locked in the officers' head (toilet) of the Japanese light cruiser Sakawa. Hours later, after the Sakawa had sunk, No. 311 was found swimming gamely in the radiation-polluted waters of Bikini Lagoon. She was irritable, and had a low blood count, but 'within a month she seemed to have recovered...