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...Negro leaders including New York's Bishop Decatur Ward Nichols of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, Hobson Reynolds of the Elks and Mrs. Ruth Mueller of the National Council of Negro Women. Eisenhower, said Nichols, was "not yet willing to concede that the only solution to civil rights is through a compulsory federal law," but Nichols added, "we are convinced that the election of General Eisenhower in November will greatly advance civil rights progress in America . . . [Eisenhower] stated he would be a 'soldier fighting in the ranks of civil progress...
Divorced. By Valerie Hobson, 35, British cinemactress (Great Expectations): Anthony Havelock-Allan, 47, British film producer (Brief Encounter); after 13 years of marriage, two children...
When the aircraft carrier Wasp began her precarious trip back to port after her mid-Atlantic collision with the destroyer-minesweeper Hobson (TIME, May 5), it seemed doubtful that she could be repaired in less than three months. Her whole lower bow had been chewed out, and a section of her hull 75 ft. long and 30 ft. high was missing. It was a blow to the Navy: ship, crew and air group had been painstakingly readied to replace another carrier in the Mediterranean...
...maneuver, Lieut. Hoefer testified, the destroyer's captain, running on the inside of the Wasp's sweeping turn, ordered "right standard rudder," thus turning his vessel in the same direction as the Wasp. But shortly thereafter he called for "left standard rudder" and turned the Hobson toward the path of the onrushing carrier...
Just what the Hobson's captain was attempting to accomplish by his series of orders was not clear. Lieut. Hoefer did not deny that if successful they would have put the destroyer "expeditiously" on station-presumably if the Hobson's first left turn had been followed by a snappy turn to starboard. When he realized he was in danger, Tierney may have hoped that by cutting more sharply to the left and speeding up, he could dodge the Wasp. The Navy refused to disclose all the testimony or to assist in speculation about ho'w the crash...