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Died. Dr. Richard ("Diamond Dick") Tanner, 73, onetime pistol prodigy; of complications resulting from a broken leg; in Norfolk, Neb. From 16 to 35, Dick amazed Wild West show audiences (including "Buffalo Bill" Cody's) with a brace of pearl-handled .44s. In 1909 he got his M.D., practiced in Norfolk for 15 years before neighbors knew they were being treated by the old pal of "Calamity Jane" and "Pawnee Bill...
Last week the Coast Guard announced that the 47-year-old Mayflower was getting a complete refit at Norfolk, would soon go to war again, this time as a convoy escort vessel...
...only haphazard training. A new chaplain simply worked under a veteran, picked up the knack from him. In February 1942, 58-year-old Navy Chief of Chaplains Robert DuBois Workman, who smokes cigars in his ten-inch stem pipe, organized the first training school at Norfolk. Last March the school, jammed with new candidates-Protestants, Catholics and Jews -moved to the Virginia college, where several groups of 25 to 40 constantly train for duty...
Great Lakes has a ball team of major-league caliber. But the service team that looks even better, at least on paper, is the one that wears the blue & grey of the Norfolk Naval Training Station. Last year the Sailors had only one great big-leaguer, Chief Boatswain's Mate Bob Feller (now at sea). This year, besides Rizzuto, McCoy, Dom Di Maggio and Padgett, the line-up includes two up-&-coming youngsters: First Baseman Eddie Robinson, onetime Baltimore Oriole, and Catcher Vince Smith, a fledgling Pirate who handled Feller's pitching last year. To replace Feller...
...Captain Says. . . . Unlike the Great Lakes team, the Norfolk Training Station nine is managed by no big-leaguer, but a warrant officer (boatswain...