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...Expert Gilbert Powderly Farrar, E & P's overall page size will be down one inch in width and two inches in length (to approximate TIME size) but will lose practically no content space. Streamliner Farrar's solution: compressing by lopping a full point off type (from 8 pt. on 8½ slug, to 7 pt...
Naval Lieut. (j.g.) Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt is going to marry her, said Hollywood's contour de force K. T. Stevens. The millionaire peacetime sportsman, divorced last year by Manuela Hudson, is now PT Boating in the South Pacific.* "It isn't official, exactly," said K.T., "but we're mutually agreed. . .. We hope-I mean, I hope-we can be married when he gets his next leave...
...mooching along in company with two landing craft (infantry and tanks) some 30 miles south of Empress Augusta Bay. One of the PT's three engines had burned out, but she could still keep up with her consorts. A gorgeous sunset was draining from the clouds and twilight was closing in. As TIME Correspondent William Chickering later got the story...
...excitement, hardly anyone realized that the Japs were launching torpedoes. Falling night was apparently playing tricks with Jap vision. The broad wake of a PT, plus the outline of the LCI, must have looked like bigger game. The torpedoes were launched too close to arm themselves and explode on impact. Four, possibly seven torpedoes were launched. One dolphined over the stern of the Who, Me?, another under the stern. One caught the LCI squarely, tore through the steel sides without-exploding. It smashed instruments, and flying debris wounded...
...another occasion, the General was asked to loan his personal Catalina flying boat to help PT boats flush a covey of Jap ships. Geiger first refused ("Got it filled full of holes the last time you fellows flew around out there"), finally gave in. But there was a string attached. He insisted on going along as copilot...