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...oldtime boatbuilders with a completely new postwar line was the Richardson Boat Co., Inc. of Tonawanda, N.Y. Instead of the traditional frame-and-plank construction, Richardson was showing 25-ft. cabin cruisers of molded mahogany plywood (price: $4,500 & up). Less conventional and less expensive (under $4,000) was the 26-ft. Steelcraft, an all-steel, welded hull cabin cruiser made by West Haven, Conn.'s Churchward...
France's grey, portly Minister of Colonies Marius Moutet (close friend of Ho's when they were fellow socialists) left for Indo-China by air. So did hard-bitten General Jacques Leclerc, France's foremost armored forces expert, whom the Vietnamese bitterly hate. The cruiser Duquesne left Algiers with a division of paratroopers on board. At week's end there was talk of weakening rebel resistance and furtive peace feelers...
...morning of Pearl Harbor itself, Zacharias was at sea in command of the heavy cruiser Salt Lake City. Ten months earlier, however, he had gone to call on Admiral Kimmel, "to lay before him my analysis and perhaps to place my knowledge of Japanese psychology at his disposal. . . . I told the Admiral . . . that if Japan decided on war with us she would open hostility with an air attack . . . probably on a Sunday morning...
...sailors from the visiting U.S. cruiser Baltimore tangled with Chileans in Valparaiso harbor. Two Americans were killed, several injured, but in Chilean legend the story grew into a Yonqui affront to national honor...
Married. Genevieve Sullivan, 29, ex-WAVE, sister of the highly publicized five Sullivan brothers who went down with the cruiser Juneau off Guadalcanal; and Murray W. Davidson, 29; both for the first time; in Chicago...