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With a notable lack of fuss, the Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. last week launched Hull No. 439. To the U.S. Navy, Hull No. 439 was the aircraft carrier Midway, biggest warship in the world...
...ROTC Unit will receive commissions in the United States Naval Reserve or in the United States Marine Corps Reserve tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock during exercises which climax a seven term accelerated program of study. Vice Admiral W. S. Pye, USN. President of the Naval War College of Newport, Rhode Island, will award the commissions and address...
Allowing for the time difference, it was only 5 p.m. on Friday in Newport News, where riveters and welders were hard at work on the growing hulls of two other aircraft carriers: the Essex, and one to be called the Bon Homme Richard. U.S. carrier warfare, whose spectacular history Lieut. Oliver Jensen, a writer (on military leave) for LIFE, has now chronicled in one of the best-written and incomparably the best-illustrated book on the Navy in World War II, was in its feeble, hit & run infancy...
...onetime Georgia Senator. Educated at the University of Georgia, Columbia, Yale and Oxford, he made a name for himself! in 26 years (1914-40) as head of Irving Lower School in Tarrytown, N.Y., made many a prosperous acquaintance through a thriving summer camp which he started at Newport, Vt. in 1916. In 1940, with money left him by his aunt, he struck out for himself, opened an expensive school near New Milford, Conn. The building shortly burned down. Then he moved his school into rented quarters in Great Barrington, Mass. The property was abruptly sold...
Reputation Regained. James remained for most of his life an American citizen. Born in 1843, the second son of the sprightly old Swedenborgian philosopher Henry James, he was kept out of the Civil War by an injury-he had hurt his back putting out a fire in Newport. His younger brothers Wilky and Bob served in the Union Army; his philosopher brother William was already doing scientific research at Harvard. Henry James went to Harvard Law School, was a book reviewer at 22. Repelled by the intense nationalism of Reconstruction days, he deliberately turned his back...