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...argue that the high percentage of Naval Academy officers selected by boards simply reflects the very real value of the four years at the Academy dedicated to no other end but creating a naval officer of raw material . . . ? ARTHUR S. HILL Lieut. Commander, U.S. Navy U.S. Naval Air Station Pensacola...
...supply route to Russia, where, lately, headaches have grown more splitting. Lengthening daylight gives Nazi aircraft more time for reconnaissance. The southward drift of polar ice pinches the convoy channel dangerously narrow. Last week Germany claimed that the Luftwaffe had sunk a U.S. cruiser of the 9,100-ton Pensacola class and a U.S. destroyer, somewhere between Norway's North Cape and Spitsbergen, had scored hits on two more U.S. destroyers. Another Nazi news-bomb announced the sinking of a 2,000-ton merchant vessel and an icebreaker in a Spitsbergen fjord...
Richard O. Ulin '38, 2G, who succeeded Douglas Mercer '40, 21, as secretary of the Union Committee this winter, left College yesterday for Pensacola Naval Air Station. He will first learn machine-gunning, then receive a commission to teach it there...
...mercenaries of deadly aim would soon be back in Federal service like their seam-faced leader Claire L. Chennault, recently taken off the retired list and made a Brigadier General. (The Navy and Marine Corps had a claim to some of them too; as many had been trained at Pensacola as at Randolph Field...
Dreamboat in Port. The new rich used their money to buy things that were once undreamed-of luxuries. They pushed jewelry sales to 26% above last year's: in Pensacola, Fla., a plasterer walked into a tony jewelry shop, counted out $100 for a diamond wrist watch; next day his wife returned with the watch and another $50 for a better...