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We get a lot of very welcome letters from our men and women in the forces - and often our correspondents at the battlefronts send word of our military absentees. For example, one of Annalee Jacoby's first cables from Chungking started off with a size-up of the situation...
"Thanks, Bob." Day after the Senate confirmation, into Cordell Hull's old black leather office crowded tittering Government clerks, a jostling mass of hardelbowed photographers, the Stettinius family-wife Virginia Wallace Stettinius, sons Edward R. III, 16, Wallace and Joseph, twins, 11-the protocol officer in striped pants, Supreme...
Deep-water photography is not new: cameras dropped with ropes or cables, or enclosed in bathyspheres, have reached depths of half a mile or more. But Ewing, working out of the Woods Hole (Massachusetts) Oceanographic Institution in the research ship Atlantis, has plumbed depths that no cable could reach.
Roen spent the winter sinking and raising a 30-in. model of the Humphrey in a tank of water over & over again. Finally he knew every detail of the job. In the Straits this summer Roen sank a salvage barge over the freighter, attached cables and filled the barge with...
"There is such a scarcity of Army transport that we walk or take a horse and carriage everywhere. The telephones work but nobody is ever at home, and offices are disorganized. Your correspondents meet, compare notes, write cables, miss appointments, hunt each other and generally go nuts in this city...