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TIME'S cover portrait of egg-bald Jap Admiral Nagano and his pistol-pointing battleship stirred up so much interest that I thought you might like to know something about the thinking behind TIME'S covers and how they are planned...
...main part of the big Jap fleet remained discreetly below the horizon, while Tokyo hinted at a great, running sea battle. The only explanation of why it never developed: the formidable appearance of the South Pacific fleet frightened the Japanese off. Said an official bulletin to the disappointed crew of a U.S. warship last week: "After finding out what they were up against, they withdrew...
...Scouting Jap activities at Wewak, where a new enemy base is being built to compensate for the loss of Buna and Gona, the Wahoo had made a find. Anchored in a narrow inlet of Mushu Island was a Japanese destroyer. The Wahoo's first torpedoes, fired at long range, missed. The destroyer weighed anchor, bore down on the submarine. Once more the Wahoo launched a torpedo. This time the shot went home, blasted the destroyer in half...
...days later, lurking in the same waters, the Wahoo sighted a fat Jap convoy. First a freighter was sunk, next a troop-jammed transport, then a tanker; finally, with the Wahoo's last torpedo, a second freighter. The sweep was clean. Later the Wahoo, its supply of torpedoes gone, had to let another convoy pass unharmed. Said Lieut. Commander Dudley W. Morton, skipper of the broom-flaunting Wahoo: ''When you have no torpedoes you sure feel naked...
Last week stories of Lou Diamond's prowess in the Solomons began drifting back to the U.S. On Tulagi he demolished 14 Jap buildings with his trusty 81-mm. mortar. Then he turned to the colonel and bet him $50 he could put a mortar shot down the chimney of the 15th. Lou Diamond won his bet. He was not so successful when a Jap destroyer came prowling around the island one morning before artillery had been hauled in, and planes were not available. His shell fell in the water behind...