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...jukebox and hit-parade tune last week was Lyricist Johnny Mercer's On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe - from the railroad of the same name. Written two years ago for M.G.M.'s yet unreleased The Harvey Girls, the song began catching on a month ago, became one of the quickest hits in the history of the U.S. music business. Sheet-music sales to date...
...work. Three vast plants were built: at Oak Ridge, Tenn., 19 miles west of Knoxville; at Pasco, in the sagebrush country of northwest Washington, 150 miles southwest of Seattle; and at Los Alamos, N.M., 30 miles northwest of Santa Fe...
When she arrived off Attu in the spring of 1943 the Santa Fe, sister of the ill-fated Atlanta and Juneau, was new, but her men already considered her a fine ship. The chow was good, the historical library (donated by the State of New Mexico) was excellent, and the skipper was popular Captain Russell Berkey, who gave humorous, fatherly lectures over the ship's loudspeaker system. Typical Berkey advice to his men after a long spell at sea: "Don't try to drink all the whiskey in Honolulu the first day . . . your stomach has forgotten what...
...Santa Fe was at Wake Island, Bougainville, Tarawa, Kwajalein, Truk, Palau, Yap, Hollandia, Wakde, Samar, Ponape, Pagan, Guam, the Philippines, Okinawa, Formosa. She sank a destroyer in the Bonins last August, and got four cargo ships off Mindanao, 2,000 miles to the southwest, in September...
...Berkey and his successor, Captain Jerauld Wright, made Admiral, and Captain Harold C. Fitz took command. Last March, under Fitz, the Santa Fe with Fitz at the wheel bravely succored the stricken carrier Franklin. Defying exploding ammunition, Fitz laid her alongside, grappled her to the Franklin while he took off wounded and sent fire fighters aboard. After that they sent the Santa Fe home for overhaul. Since March 1943 she had steamed 221,000 miles...