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Although British officials last month denied even the report that the cruiser had been located, Locksmith Courtney said that he had descended to the wreck in a new kind of duralumin diving suit which .combines flexibility with pressure resistance, had opened one safe from which was recovered ?15,000 in gold. Another dive, he related, had provided an experience he would not care to repeat. He and a companion were caught alongside the jagged wreckage by a strong tide. He was helpless in the dark green water for 40 min. Undertow bashed him against sharp steel, so dented his duralumin...
...Conference next month. The White House secretariat pooh-poohed the story, and the President discouraged it by reciting his summer plans to the Press: He would go to the graduation of his son John at Groton School in early June, receive an honorary degree at Rutgers later. Aboard the cruiser Indianapolis he would steam up the coast from Philadelphia probably as far as Marblehead. There he and his sons would board the Amberjack II and sail themselves up to the Roosevelt summer home in New Brunswick. After a few weeks there the President would return to Hyde Park...
Meantime, Admiral Standley will be transferred from the command of the cruiser division of the Scouting Force, normally based on the Atlantic Coast but for the past year lingering in the Pacific, to command the Battle Force. Like famed Captain Reece, R. N. of the Bab Ballads, Admiral Standley says he pays more attention to personnel than to technical affairs. ''I am interested in everything that concerns my officers...
...fancy, hut what is neither implausible nor fancy in Hell Below are scenes in the control room of the submarine with men dying slowly of chlorine gas; torpedoes arrowing smoothly toward German mine layers; depth bombs going off near the submarine's bow; a German cruiser exploding and sinking. In a picture so muddled in texture it is not surprising to find two comedians, Sterling Holloway and Jimmy Durante, cast in opposite types of roles. More startling is the fact that the experiment turns out so well. It is hard to say which is more effective-Durante...
...admirers try as darkly as possible to solve. First Bogard takes Claude on a bombing trip in his plane, rather hoping that he will be shot. Claude and Ronnie return the courtesy by inviting Bogard to come with them on an expedition to blow up a German cruiser in Kiel. On this escapade, Claude gets shot blind; Diana, almost prepared to let him down at last, has to do the right thing, stay with him. Bogard does the right thing also; he volunteers for a suicide assignment. There is only one Right Thing left to do. Ronnie and Claude...