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...Midway was so vast (986 ft. long) and so intricately divided into watertight compartments below the hangar deck that a boot sailor could be excused if he took days to find his way around. But the vastness of the flight deck eased the operations of Commander John T. ("Tommy") Blackburn's Air Group 74; pilots even approved the emery-paper landing surface on the steel deck. The 5-inch, .54-caliber guns had beginners' luck and brought down a good bag of towed sleeves and radio-controlled drone target planes. Eventually, all departments would function as smoothly...
...placed seven men on the All-House football team announced by Adolph W. Samborski '25 yesterday. Notable for the absence of Eliot's passer Herbie Eckenroth, who was master of the intramural airways before the Varsity squad grabbed him, the team bears eloquent testimony to the omnipotence of the sailor powerhouse...
...started on the 26th of August when our P.O.W. camp of 509 British, Dutch and a few Americans in the center of Japan's Northern Island was visited by four torpedo bombers from the U.S.S.Hancock. . . . They bombed us with food, tobacco, candy, TIME and LIFE, in sailor's kitbags addressed "To the men we have not forgotten." . . . The amazing cordiality, informality and fantastic speed with which we were clothed, fed, deloused, bathed, injected, inoculated and whizzed down here by Liberators and air transports, on occasion with nurses, was an epic of dynamic friendliness finding a way through...
...also jampacked with minor characters, ranging from a sailor who takes his accordion to bed with him ("It takes up less room than a woman and sounds a hell of a lot better") to suave -Lord Kelvinston, who subsidizes the ballet and reeks of "inbred irony." You and I has amusing moments and non-stop action, but somehow it seems just to have been poured...
...Massachusetts Maritime Academy here Saturday, finally succumbed on the short end of a 13 to 9 count. Freshman E. N. Foynes scored the only Crimson touchdown on an end run in the first period, but Coach Al Kevorkian's outfit was unable to hold the mariners. After a sailor score in the second quarter, the home team struck back with a safety early in the second half, but a last-period tally sewed up the contest for the visitors...