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Task Force to Truk. The new team was tuned up in training raids against Marcus and Wake Islands. It showed its power in the Gilbert and Marshall Islands. But not until Kwajalein was secured did the seaborne air power of the U.S. Navy show its immense reach. Then Admirals Spruance and Mitscher set off with the fast carriers and fast battleships to neutralize Truk. Task Force 58 was on its road to glory...
...fashion business went Good Neighborly last week. Sponsored by the wife of Mexico's Foreign Minister Ezequiel Padilla, a benefit style show and sale opened in Mexico City. From Dallas came a special plane bearing dresses, shoes, hats, Clothier H. Stanley Marcus and twelve luscious models. All were installed in Mexico City's gaudy Reforma Hotel...
...length, some 7,000 miles out of Panama, they approach and learn their target-the small, elegant triangle of Marcus Island. The night before their first experience of combat-a night crowded with taciturn faces, with letters home, with prayers and last Communions, with the subdued, systematic turmoil of spotting the deck, with athletes' breakfasts served by artificial light, and finally with just waiting-is one of the most moving sequences in the film...
Died. Ruth Hanna McCormick Simms, 64, onetime Congresswoman-at-large from Illinois, daughter of Ohio's President-Maker Marcus Hanna, widow of Illinois' Senator Medill McCormick, wife of a one time Congressman from New Mexico; of pancreatitis; in Chicago...
...held Vella Lavella to help rescue the cruiser Helena's survivors after the Battle of Kula Gulf - was one of the first five white men to reach Munda airport (he got there 24 hours before our troops marched in) -and in the first raid on Marcus Island he saw three new fighting tools first tested in battle: the Essex class carrier, the Independence type carrier, and the sensational Grumman Hellcat...