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...Japan unquestionably knows that this margin is bound to be short-lived, that if she is to take full advantage of it she will have to do so very soon. A Navy spokesman last week said that 13 U.S. carriers are under construction. The launching of four new ones (Essex, Independence, Princeton and Lexington) has been announced, and they should soon be going into service. Some time next year Japan may well face a U.S. carrier increase of one or more per month. In the meantime the U.S. must do what it can to redress the unfavorable carrier balance with...
...Everts, 'University tennis champion, had a busy time this weekend in the Essex County Tennis Tournament at the North Andover Country Club; reaching the final he was defeated 6-1, 6-4, 6-4, by Dave Freeman, 1m, National Badminton champion and holder of many tennis titles...
Died. Rev. Conrad le Despenser Roden Noel, 73, vicar of Thaxted, England, whose crusty championship of Marxian socialism had made his modest Essex vicarage a center of political and ecclesiastical turmoil since his appointment in 1910. Known as "the Red vicar," Father Noel once flew a red flag from his steeple, during World War I hung the green banner of the Irish Sinn Fein party near his pulpit, refused to permit the British Union Jack in his church...
...Navy has eleven 25,000-ton carriers (Essex class) building, can expect all in service between...
...year-old mare named Royal Wally, a habitual also-ran, was entered in New Jersey's Essex Fox Hounds race meet last week. The Race Committee expected Member C. Suydam Cutting's weekend guests, the Duke & Duchess of Windsor, to attend the races. So rather than scratch Royal Wally, Owner Thomas Tully changed her name to Glenside. Fulfilling expectations, she finished last, but, alas, her former namesake didn't come...