Word: hood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Iturbi, turbulent-tempered Spanish conductor-pianist, got on his high horse last week with one angry bound. Reason: he was slated to conduct a program (July 10) at Philadelphia's Robin Hood Dell, on which Swingster Benny Goodman was scheduled to play one of his specialties, the Mozart clarinet concerto. From California, Conductor Iturbi telephoned Philadelphia: "[Goodman] is a jazz-band leader. It would be beneath my dignity to conduct for him." (Iturbi has accepted dignified fees for appearing with Bing Crosby on the radio, playing piano accompaniment for Bob Burns' bazooka.) Drawled Benny Goodman: "Well...
...sinking by the Royal Navy of the Nazi Bismarck, which had just sunk the British Hood, all but one of these things were true...
Reason for the Navy's touchiness was the antiquated design and consequent destruction of the British battle cruiser Hood. The U.S. Alaskas will be more than half as big as the Hood (24,000 to 25,000 tons), have about the same speed (30 knots). According to published reports and Washington naval gossip (long since picked up by German and Japanese attaches), the Alaskas will have nine 12-in. guns in their main batteries (the Hood had eight 15-in.). They will be 700 ft. long (the Hood was 860 ft. long; the South Dakota's overall length...
...Alaskas will presumably be better armored than the obsolescent Hood, need not be damned because of superficial similarities. With their range (reportedly 13,000 miles), more punch and staying power than some of the Navy's older battleships, the Alaskas should be very handy if the U.S. Navy has to back up President Roosevelt's threat to harry Nazi shipping out of the Atlantic, or do the same to Japan's trade routes in the Pacific. The catch: none of the Alaskas has even been laid down; they are future ships indeed...
Unofficial reports first had it that an Alaska cruiser, instead of an older type like the Santa Fe, was to go down in the South Dakota's vacated space. Secretary Knox said last week that the Navy was awaiting full details of the Hood and Bismarck sinkings, implied that some changes in U.S. design may result...