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...Norfolk Navy Yard last week shipwrights swarmed over a rakish gunboat, reconverting her into a presidential yacht for Harry Truman. She was the U.S.S. Williamsburg, lately with the Atlantic Fleet, before that a high-speed convoy flagship based in Iceland...
...eight years since he started climbing up the Yankee chain, Tommy Holmes had worked hard to reach his present peak. As a pesky wrist-hitter, who specialized in poking the ball to left field (mostly singles), he had a five-year average of .329 with Norfolk, Binghamton and Newark. Then the Yankees sold him to Boston. There he learned to pull the ball, spent hours trying to hit a roll of tarpaulin along the right field foul line. When the right-field fence at Braves Field was shortened, he learned to, swing for distance...
...ALBERT A. GOLDBERG Norfolk...
Most of the Navy's big ships have been coated with it. (It does not work on wood bottoms.) The Navy considers its invention so important that, to keep the formula a secret, it manufactures the paint in its own plants at Mare Island, Calif, and Norfolk...
Meanwhile, news from the home front stiffened opposition to any other kind of work law at all. The Mead (ex-Truman) Committee had swooped into the Norfolk Navy Yard, triumphantly brought out a report of labor surplus and waste there. Congressmen's mail told of bad management and "stretch-outs" (making a little job last a long time). Typical report: "I have worked for two weeks on a job I could have finished in two days...