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Wednesday afternoon, it was the Royal Navy's turn to play the genial host. The navy celebration was held on board, the mighty cruiser H.M.S. Glasgow and featured free refreshments and illustrated tours of the ship. Those members of the team who had enjoyed service in the U.S.N. saw fit to miss this one and made a beeline over to the Elbow Beach Surf Club to make hay while the sun shone. The Elbow Beach Surf Club, it will be remembered, was where the visiting college girls were quartered...
...animals exposed to the atom-bomb blast and radiation in the 1946 Operation Crossroads, none won greater fame than Pig No. 311. A wriggly, 50-lb. shoat, No. 311 was locked in the officers' head (toilet) of the Japanese light cruiser Sakawa. Hours later, after the Sakawa had sunk, No. 311 was found swimming gamely in the radiation-polluted waters of Bikini Lagoon. She was irritable, and had a low blood count, but 'within a month she seemed to have recovered...
...politicians withdrew. They knew that a Papagos government would be a military dictatorship, that the U.S. and Britain would disapprove. Lord Mountbatten, who was commanding a British cruiser squadron in the Mediterranean, went ashore and gave his cousin, King Paul, some family advice...
Married. Burnet Rhett Maybank, 49, blue-blooded, white-supremacist U.S. Senator from South Carolina; and Mrs. Mary Randolph Pelzer Cecil, 47, widow of naval hero Rear Admiral Charles P. Cecil (onetime commander of the cruiser Helena), each for the second time; in Charleston...
...Navy has had to sink the ships which survived Bikini. Last week the submarine Skate and the transport Crittenden were destroyed during landing maneuvers off Southern California. Next month the heavy cruiser Pensacola and the destroyer Hughes will be sent to the bottom. Two years and three months after Bikini, all four were still radioactive...