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More promising was the outlook for the New York Rangers, the Americans' archrivals. The 1941 Rangers lost their star goalie, Dave Kerr, who retired to go into the beer business. To replace him, Manager Lester Patrick brought from his Regina (Saskatchewan) kindergarten a 21-year-old named Jim ("Sugar") Henry. Henry has never' played anything but amateur hockey. But rinkfans who saw him guard the Ranger nets to two victories last week voted Sugar Jim the sweetest rookie to come up to the big-time in years. He may do more than his share toward keeping the Boston...
...last week got her commission from the Navy. She was the 20,000-ton Hornet (cost: $31,000,000), whose broad decks can accommodate 80 planes. The addition of the Hornet brought the number of active U.S. carriers up to seven, ranging in tonnage from the 14,500-ton Ranger to the 33,000-ton Lexington and Saratoga, which were started as battle cruisers before their conversion in 1927. Although numerically the British and Japanese are credited with superiority over the U.S. in carriers-England has eight, Japan nine-the U.S. aircraft fleet can handle almost as many planes...
...south, but the Engadine failed to get this intelligence to the Fleet.) Throughout the early '20s U.S. Navy men agitated for first-class carriers, got two of the best when the Lexington and Saratoga were commissioned in 1927. First U.S. ship specifically designed as a carrier was the Ranger, which slid down the ways at Newport News in 1933. Almost all the regular U.S. carriers of today are designed to do around 30 knots, and none in the world is as big as the Lexington and Saratoga. Last week came a report that, in case...
...Ranger for the Boeing patrol bomber...
...achievements of Walter Brennan on the screen in his role of the dean who for forty years played appeaser to the stadium-building alumni. Only Betty Kelley as the emotional wife falls short of the generally high standard of the production. Billed as having previous experience on the Lone Ranger program and as a professional model, she may be the originator of "Hiyooooo Silver" and certainly was a "before" model for "before and after" corset advertisements...