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...Navy and the hard-pressed Marines who had landed on Guadalcanal on Aug. 7 were still hanging on by the skin of their teeth. The carrier Hornet was sunk, and the recently repaired Enterprise was badly damaged. The destroyer Porter was sunk. The brand-new battleship South Dakota was damaged (and her famed Captain Thomas L. Gatch wounded). The cruiser San Juan suffered "considerable" damage. "We sank no enemy vessels . . . but there were partial compensations. Two enemy carriers had been put out of action and four Japanese air groups had been cut to pieces...
Lanky, black-haired Howard Robard Hughes, moviemaker, planemaker and speed flyer, shrank the U.S. continent this week. In a brand-new four-motored, 60-passenger Lockheed Constellation he took off from Burbank, Calif, at 3:56 (P.W.T.), landed at Washington, D.C. six hours and 58 minutes later. Average speed: 355 m.p.h. He cracked his own seven-year transcontinental record by 30 minutes, smashed the nine-year-old transport record by 3 hours, 24 minutes...
...picture was battle-worn, oil-flecked. Major Bong told reporters he was going to put on a brand-new photo. Then the P-38 would be ready to fight again...
With only a week more of opera to go, Manhattan's Metropolitan last week turned up its biggest surprise of the season. He was a brand-new and authentic example of a very rare operatic commodity: a Wagnerian Heldentenor (heroic tenor). His name: Emery Darcy...
...Navy last week admitted that it had a brand-new type of ship which has been added to fill out its invasion repertory. The LSM (Landing Ship, Medium) is expected to fill the last gap in the range of vessels needed for amphibious jobs...