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...Naval Operations, President Truman last week picked Admiral Louis E. Denfeld, 56, commander of the Pacific Fleet. A onetime chief of naval personnel, Denfeld was a proved administrator, well-liked on Capitol Hill, but no airman. It was a clear-cut victory for the Navy's tightly knit battleship clique...
...years as junkmen in New York, brothers Morris and Julius Lipsett had handled such big jobs as scrapping Manhattan's Second Avenue El, the old approaches to the Brooklyn Bridge, and the liner Normandie (TIME, Oct. 14, 1946). So they expected no trouble when they bought the decommissioned battleship New Mexico for $381,000 (original cost in 1917: $17,348,200). But last week as the New Mex, shorn of her power plant and with holes bored in her big guns, was towed from Boston toward Newark, trouble hit her like a spread of torpedoes amidships...
...Lipsett brothers had a deal with the Navy to moor the New Mex at its Newark dock while they cut her up. But as the battleship approached, the city of Newark declared a blockade...
...nozzles as ominously as they could for news photographers. But the New Mexico did not arrive. In rough weather off the Long Island coast the tugs cast off her tows, and for a few hours the New Mex strayed alone on the Atlantic. Finally the Coast Guard found the battleship wallowing helplessly in heavy seas and the tugs got lines aboard once more...
...declare that he would take nothing but water with a little bicarbonate of soda until the country behaved itself (i.e., acted as Mr. Truman thought it should), the U.S. public would not know what to think, or what to do about it. Last week, Mr. Truman was aboard the battleship Missouri (see The Presidency), eating very well. He was due back in the White House this week. And when he got there he would be confronted with problems as complicated, if not as intense, as India's. They were world problems which the U.S., almost alone, had to solve...