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Whaleboats & Logs. The diesels of the U-505 were still running, and the boat was moving in a tight, righthand circle when Lieut, (j.g.) Albert David and eight crewmen from the destroyer Pillsbury jumped aboard, minutes after the last live German had left (the body of one Nazi, the only fatality in the whole operation, was found aboard the U-boat). Racing below, the boarders shut the seacocks, stopped the engines and searched for booby traps. That evening the U-5O5 -rechristened Can Do, Jr.-rode at the end of a towline behind the Guadalcanal...
...Central's new president (TIME, June 7) and chief executive officer.-Take a Chance. Young and Perlman had met for the first time only 20 days before. But Perlman had been carefully scouted much earlier by Thomas J. Deegan, vice president of Alleghany and, as Young's righthand man, director of the campaign for Central proxies. As second in command (under Judge Wilson McCarthy) of the middle-sized D. & R.G., which has 2,300 miles of track in Utah, Colorado and New Mexico, Perlman built up a reputation as an outstanding railroad man. What was closer to Young...
...research, a group of headlight manufacturers headed by General Electric Co. announced an improved sealed-beam headlight for autos which will be available within two years. The new light, approved by a subcommittee of the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators, gives wider vision down the righthand side of the road, has greater overall range, cuts down on flareback in fog and rain, thus virtually eliminates the need for separate fog lights...
...midst of the journalistic battle among the liberals, the weekly Nation last week suffered some crippling casualties. Executive Editor Harold C. Field, righthand man of Editor Freda Kirchwey for the past two years, quietly resigned, effective the end of June. Two longtime contributors already had pulled their names from the Nation's masthead: Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, for 15 years a staff contributor, and Political Writer Robert Bendiner, contributing editor and onetime (1937-44) managing editor...
Mabel Carmon grew up in Streator, Ill., took her training at Chicago's Wesley Memorial Hospital, soon became the "righthand gal" of Dr. Joseph B. DeLee, who headed Lying-in from its opening in 1895 to his death in 1942. She first went to work for him in 1907, when Lying-in was running a three-bedroom, gaslit hospital in Chicago's stockyards district, and when nearly all U.S. infants were born at home...