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Experts had written off the heavily armed, undersized "pocket battleship" after the Graf Spee was bagged by cruisers in 1939. Therefore there was considerable grousing in Washington last week when the high-domed United States Naval Institute Proceedings came out with an article advocating a 10,000-ton cruiser of the Brooklyn class which would be armed, not with the 11-in. guns of a Graf Spee, but with the 14-in. weapons of a full-fledged battleship...
...Cryptic note sent out by the Associated Press the night of Spangler's election: "In Spangler background, first graf, read it 'X X X one of those party wheel horses, etc.' (deleting 'ideal...
Pratt & the Graf Spee. Military Expert Fletcher Pratt of New York City invented in 1929 and has since developed a Naval War Game which actually approximates sea war. One night in 1939 the players looked at each other and whistled. Three light ships had just sunk the German pocket battleship, the Admiral Graf Spee, a supposedly impossible feat. But their calculations showed it could be done-and they were not so much surprised as vindicated when the Graf Spee actually got her comeuppance in just that way six months later off Brazil...
...Graf to Help Out Brown...
Helping out Brown yesterday was Jack Graf, who played three years at guard for Ohio State. Graf is studying at the Business School, and he aided Harlow with the football team this fall...