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Early one morning last week, 115 days after the submarine Squahis sank off the New Hampshire coast, salvage boats tugged her to drydock at Portsmouth Navy Yard. On hand to watch the grim job of opening her hatch were her skipper, Lieut. Oliver Naquin, and 27 of 32 fellow survivors...
Inspection confirmed her commander's theory of how the Squalus was flooded. One of her two air-intake valves tested at Portsmouth closed in good order. But the other stuck, closed only after repeated efforts, indicating how death had flooded the Squalus...
...thwarted lovers, Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor, went home, taking with him his still unroyal, still beloved Duchess. Once the news would have been the biggest in all Britain; last week it was just another parenthesis in the sad story of war. The Kelly was scheduled to dock at Portsmouth at 6:30 one evening. At 6:45 the blundering Ministry of Information announced that the Duke had landed. But not until 9, more than two hours after the news hit the wires, did the Duke set foot on the red carpet which covered the very jetty from which...
...long, bare room in the Portsmouth Navy Yard Administration Building last week, four white-gloved officers of the U. S. Navy inquired into the sinking of the U. S. submarine Squalus (TIME, June 5). Before the board of inquiry sat the 33 survivors, including the lost boat's square-chinned, grave-eyed commander, Lieut. Oliver F. Naquin. Absent: the 26 who died...
...Henry Richman started the business in Portsmouth, Ohio in 1853-25 years before it moved to Cleveland-often wholesaled his suits and overcoats in trade for pig iron and salt. After his three sons got into the company it really grew. Son Charles Lehman (who died in 1936), "the merry one," became president. Son Henry Centennial (who died in 1934), "the quiet one," became secretary-treasurer. "Mr. N. G."-"the grave one"-became chairman of the board. "Mr. N. G." in 1903 hit on the profitable idea of selling Richman Bros. $22.50 suits direct to wearer. Today the company operates...