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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...White House, the President appeared to be changing pace as his problems grew more pressing. He cut down his usually long list of callers through the front door, but there was a noticeable pickup in traffic through the White House side doors, where his close advisers enter. The President gave over three full afternoons to talks with Cabinet members and other officials...
...World War II cost? Last week the Navv told. Beginning with the destroyer Reuben James, sunk on Atlantic patrol by a U-boat five weeks before Pearl Harbor, and ending with the submarine Bullhead, which disappeared in the Java Sea just as Japan quit, the total was 701. The list included 157 first-line combat ships, plus 544 supporting ships and auxiliaries ranging from troopships to 15-ton yard craft...
...midshipmen get through four years without being "frapped" (reported for some infraction). For a long list of Class B offenses (from "hair not properly cut" to "window, throwing articles from") midshipmen sweat out hours of extra duty drills. For a shorter list of Class A offenses (malingering, obscenity, scandalous conduct, etc.) midshipmen brood in confinement in their rooms. Midshipman quip that there are still men from the classes of the '30s gathering dust in forgotten corners of Bancroft Hall...
Finis? The unlucky ex-French liner Normandie was added to the list of surplus property for sale by the Navy. Probable last trip of the 80,000-ton liner (on which the Navy spent $11 million for salvage after she burned and capsized in 1942) will be an ignoble tow to a junk yard...
Each year has its crop of big babies. Doctors, who believe what they see, list a 25-lb. stillborn girl in 1916 as the largest on U.S. record. Last week medium-sized Mrs. Francis Strohl, 38, wife of a Lawton, Pa. lumberman, gave birth to a baby girl who would be hefty in any year: 18 Ibs. The child, her mother's 15th, was reported in fine condition...