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Ready to be "inducted" this week as flagship of the Coast Guard's Corsair Fleet was the sturdy, full-rigged Gertrude L. Thebaud, most famed of U.S. fishing schooners. Built to sail in weather that would blow the paint off her, the Gertrude L. Thebaud met Nova Scotia's older, bigger Bluenose in three salt-sprayed races, won once, lost twice. In her day she has brought back many a load of cod and halibut. Now, with her white hull painted drab grey, she will patrol the Atlantic Coast listening for lurking subs...
...nations have been sound asleep, the U.S. is a long way out in front. Grumman's famed Wildcat fighters are the best carrier craft in the world, will soon have to fight for their title with another U.S. product: Vought-Sikorsky's gull-winged Corsair. Grumman's new torpedo-plane Avenger has no equal in foreign services. Consolidated's Catalinas have piled up an unequaled record for reliable scouting. And bigger and faster flying boats are coming: Consolidated's four-engined Coronado, Martin's gargantuan Mars...
...Corsair for the Vought...
Gimbels sells art objects like hotcakes. With the Hearst collection already half disposed of, it knocked down and dispersed the collection of the late Clarence Mackay and the fittings of J. P. Morgan's yacht Corsair. Last month when Gimbels announced a sale of 500 original Turners from the collection of the late John E. Anderson (priced from $11.75 up), buyers from all over the U.S. joined a public stampede. In two days the 500 Turners had been sold...
...Heywood Hale Broun passed his physical exam, expected induction within a month. Robert P. Patterson Jr., son of the Under Secretary of War (see p. 28), turned up at Springfield Armory Arsenal working incognito as a machinist. J. P. Morgan gave Bundles for Britain the furnishings of the yacht Corsair IV, which is now in war service. Bundles will sell them for cash...