Word: neosho
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Daniel Longwell, 69, one of the first editors of LIFE; of a heart attack; at his home in Neosho, Mo. After coming to Time Inc. in 1934 from the trade-book departments at Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., Longwell served as a special assistant to Henry R. Luce, later started the experimental department that led to the publication of LIFE in 1936. Until then, most U.S. magazines used pictures mainly as text illustration; Longwell printed pictures to tell the story-strong, bold, often alone on the page. "We learned," he said, "to give the picture a chance." He began...
Ignored by Yoshikawa, but moored between battleships California and Oklahoma on the night of Dec. 6, was the crack fleet tanker U.S.S. Neosho, as large, new and well manned as any tanker in the fleet. On the morning of the 7th, with 3,000,000 gallons of fuel oil aboard, she rated as a No. 1 priority target. It is not pleasant, even now, to contemplate Neosho and gasoline fueling facilities for the fleet on Ford Island had she been destroyed and Pearl Harbor flooded with millions of gallons of flaming...