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Formerly, before an officer was allowed to stand a deck watch under way, he had to have two years at sea in addition to his four years' training at the Naval Academy. Now men stand watch after six months' training as deck officers...
...Darkest Day. Within an hour after the Japanese struck at Pearl Harbor, Nimitz had impressed his superiors as a man well suited for the Pacific command. He had been summoned to Frank Knox's office on the second "deck" of the barracks-like Navy Department on Washington's Constitution Avenue. There were gathered the Secretary, Under Secretary Forrestal, Assistant Secretary Bard, Admiral Harold R. ("Betty") Stark, Chief of Naval Operations. Nimitz, then a rear admiral and chief of the Bureau of Navigation, was the calmest man present...
Outwardly, there was nothing to indicate that June 1, 1943 was an auspicious day for naval air forces and a turning point in the Pacific War. But on that day high-ranking officers, one after another, trooped out on the top "deck" of the concrete headquarters building at Makalapa, overlooking Pearl Harbor, focused their binoculars on a grey shape across the loch, by Ford Island. The Essex, first of America's post-Pearl Harbor battle carriers, had arrived to take her place in the battle line. Soon her sister ship, now named Yorktown instead of Bon Homme Richard...
Happily for the press, one capable U.S. newsman was on deck: Presidential Secretary Steve Early, an old A.P. hand. He not only helped get out the Big Three's communiqué, but was probably responsible for such side stories as the conference at Malta, and the news that Bronx Boss Ed Flynn went along. The New York Daily News's Columnist John O'Donnell, whose words of praise for anything Rooseveltian are rare as a miser's largesse, was moved to remark: "The best job of reporting that the competent Early has turned in since...
Fistfuls from Firehouse. Because Check is played with a 48-card pinochle deck (i.e., two ordinary 52-card decks with all cards below the nine discarded), every deal is bound to provide a fistful of aces, kings and queens. Bridge players, accustomed to holding a number of "bust" hands during an evening of play, will perk up at such a splash of face cards. Then, too, whereas bridge games often drag out as hands are passed because they are too evenly distributed, almost every Check deal gives either side a chance to bid and make a contract...