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...story, as it was finally told, the Navy had nothing to be ashamed, much of high courage to remember. To bolster Java's defenses, the old Langley (born the collier Jupiter 29 years ago, transformed into the first U.S. carrier, finally reduced to a drudge's job) was loaded with fighters...
Though there are about 50 to 100 show-girl "hostesses" a night, there are also an increasing number of "senior hostesses" (older actresses like Antoinette Perry and Constance Collier), because the Canteen has found that lots of the kids are skirt-shy, only feel at home with substitutes for Mother. For all hostesses there are two ironclad rules: They must be members of the entertainment professions (or the daughter or wife of a member), and they may not leave the place with a service...
Building ships has always been Sam Robinson's specialty. Now 59, he graduated from Annapolis in 1903, went back after six years at sea for engineering postgraduate work. Most of his career has been in Navy engineering departments. He was executive officer on the Collier Jupiter, first ship equipped with electric drive, learned enough about electric machinery to design it for many a battlewagon...
Under Editor MacLeish in OFF were other able men: Columnist (now Captain) Robert Kintner; Historian & Essayist Henry F. Pringle of Harper's and Collier's; former Washington Correspondent Ulric J. Bell, of the Louisville Courier-Journal; New York Times Book Reviewer Charles Poore; Columbia Broadcasting System's Vice President William B. Lewis; TIME'S Allen Grover, Chicago Daily Newsman Edgar Ansel Mowrer...
...some 6,000,000 newspaper readers this week goes the syndicated Sunday magazine section This Week in a new format. Cut down to Collier's-size, its new make-up eliminates "jumps," or run-overs to back pages. Its editorial ingredients are 52% articles, 48% fiction, as against its onetime mixture of 80% fiction, 20% articles (serials were dropped two years...