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...destroyers, looking like absurd little floating factories with their flat decks and four tall funnels, steamed up the harbor. They dropped their anchors, but only long enough for British sailors to go aboard. Then they weighed again, and made out to sea. There, under the Stars & Stripes, gob showed tar how to run the little knifelike craft...
...citizens clamored for something to do for Defense. They besieged local recruiting stations, deluged the War and Navy Departments in Washington with letters. A great many wanted to be the equivalent of a hostess on an Army bomber. Few considered enlisting for the lowly job of buck private or gob. Some were too old; many had special talents which would be wasted in the ranks. But buck privates and gobs are what the Army & Navy want. The Army already has so many (117,000) reserve officers that it is issuing no more commissions (except in the Air Corps). Last week...
From "Uncle Joe" down to the rawest gob, the men and officers of the U. S. Fleet swear they could lick Japan's Navy. In full-dress sea fight they ought to. But in the quiet watches, the bravest must remember Alfred Thayer Mahan's dictum: that a Navy is composed of men, ships, bases. (Admiral Mahan, the high priest of modern navies, died before air power began to confuse sea power.) What the U. S. Navy lacks in the western Pacific, Japan has: a sufficient line of bases...
...Kenneth Overlin, Washington ex-gob: the New York State version of the world's middleweight title, by a 15-round decision over "bolo-punching" Ceferino Garcia, Los Angeles Filipino; in Manhattan...
Lately Dr. Lyman Spitzer Jr., a National Research Fellow at Harvard, mathematically analyzed the conditions which would exist in the gob of hot sun-stuff. He showed that, even under the most favorable conditions, expansion would take place more than 100 times as fast as cooling-therefore that a planet would never have a chance to form. In the Scientific American last week his work was explained by Princeton's grey, gentle Henry Norris Russell, a great authority on the solar system, under the gloomy title, "A Famous Theory Weakens...