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Tired, old, the Marblehead throbbed as she gathered speed and the sky spewed Jap bombers. Over & over again they came. On the deck of the Marblehead a bomb smashed home. She heeled, shuddered, spit flames from her shattered deck. Her quartermaster sang out: "Steering gear's gone...
...enormous on her flanks, the brand-new, U.S.-built, 12,500-ton tanker Victoria, Felix G. D. Salomone, Master, tanks blown full of Argentine linseed, was clipping along northbound 300 miles off Cape Hatteras. Just before sundown one day, a torpedo smacked into her 30 feet aft of amidships. Deck plates buckled, but her all-welded Albany hull stood up: the bulkheads of the tanks were unbreached...
Navy officers-to-be should apply to the commandant in charge of the local Naval district, must present similar personal information and credentials. Unlike the Army, the Navy operates few factories, hence its biggest need is for deck and engineering officers on surface ships. Also wanted are civil engineers, electricians, radio technicians, administrative officers. There is always an opening for good pilots and other airmen...
Navy clouded the picture by beating Cornell by a deck, thus proving that its two previous victories were not farces. Last week the Ithacans gave Tom Bolles six and a half very bad minutes before the Crimson edged ahead, and apparently Harvard will have its work cut out for it when it tackles Navy on the sixteenth...
Stroked by newly elected Captain "Shultz" Wood, the Freshmen turned in an extremely heartening performance in turning back the Cornell Freshmen by a deck length in the opening race. The Yardlings were clocked in 6:56, only one second slower than the Varsity, and the conditions changed very little throughout the afternoon...