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...rumpled man with cantilever mustach was giving the U.S. Navy's Bureau of Ships plenty to brood about. Greying William Starling Burgess, designer of America's Cup defenders (Enterprise, Rainbow and Ranger), whipper-upper of the automobile-engined Sea Otter (TIME, Sept. 29), had turned up with another ship innovation...
This time it was a new kind of destroyer, faster by 25% than any of the 41-knot, steel-hulled speedsters the Navy is getting, and nimble-footed as a seagoing cat. "Skipper" Burgess had patented the design in 1937, had tested it, as well as he could without a full-scale model, from hell to breakfast. What worried Navymen was the material that Burgess had to use to get his speed-and-footing effect: aluminum. The Navy could not have had a seemingly good design thrown at it at a worse time, when aluminum supply (and magnesium, needed...
Nonetheless the Navy had ordered one Burgess boat from Bath (Me.) Iron Works and was busy wangling the 300 tons of aluminum needed...
...Yale Varsity lineup: Heath, g; Baker, rfb; Spaeth, lfb; Hoagland, rhb; Lilly, Wilcox, Reed, shb; Cumming, lhb; Deland, Wilson, Grurey, ro; Caulkins, Chynoweth, ri; Carrington, Anderson, cf; Hopkins, li; Haines, Keith, Dangler, Watson, Myers, Shepard, Burgess...
...years ago Vinton Freedley meddled with such an idea when he tried to dramatize "Young Man With a Horn" starring Burgess Meredith. Eddie Condon and various other top-ranking men were actually signed up, but after a few weeks the pristine enthusiasm over the idea faded and no more was heard of the matter. But apart from the brief appearance of Louis Armstrong and Benny Goodman in a minor extravaganza entitled "Swingin' the Dream," which caught at best a fleeting glimpse of Broadway, jazz and its exponents have not since been given a chance to ennoble the buskin'd stage...