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...were due aboard the Missouri to surrender, somebody discovered at the last minute that there was no table on hand big enough for the ceremonious signing. A table from the enlisted men's mess was carted topside and set up on the Missouri's teak-planked veranda deck. The ceremony over, the table was taken back to the mess where it belonged. A dozen men had eaten spaghetti at it before the ship's officers shouted, "Where's the table?" They retrieved the now historic object and stowed it reverently away in an officer...
...Information-expert Irene Burbank wore out two pairs of rationed shoes sightseeing every sight around New York herself. For example, she has taken the three-hour boat trip around Manhattan and can even tell you just how much poetic license was involved in describing the seats as "luxury liner deck chairs." She has also tested on her own palate and nerves the fare and entertainment of just about every eating place and night club in New York...
...Annapolis, aboard a dingy, tub-shaped, ancient icebreaker, now a Navy pilot craft, the President found about 75 thirsting party men. He went to the boat's top deck and yelled hearty gibes at Congressmen and others as they came dockside. One was James M. Barnes, former Illinois Congressman and one of Franklin Roosevelt's "secret six" assistants. Jim Barnes's imminent departure from Washington was the excuse for the get-together. He was the guest of honor; the President was merely another guest of Russell M. Arundel, Washington attorney, who signed the check at the club...
Inventor R. M. Hamilton started in a small way with the "Swiss Roll," a can-vas-and-wood pier to be carried, rolled up, on a ship's deck. During the Normandy invasion, trucks speeded over an unrolled roll to safety on the beach. Final flowering of the idea was Lily...
...Sara's hangar deck, the pilots' ready rooms and even the admiral's flag office had been turned into quarters for over 2,000 sailors, who tossed their leis in the water as the big carrier weighed anchor from Pearl Harbor. Soon 35 smaller escort carriers would be similarly transformed into Navy transports...