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Tojo Had the Ball. But Halsey was a sailorman's sailor; the Navy still expected great things of him. On Sept. 15, on the deck of the Saratoga at Pearl Harbor, Admiral Nimitz said: "I've got a surprise for you, men. Admiral Halsey's back." Officers and enlisted men broke into cheers when Halsey stepped forward...
...seemed likely to wreck Halsey's whole fleet. But the Ti came through without losing a man or a plane. Dixie proudly read Rear Admiral Frederick Sherman's "well done" over the loudspeaker, and congratulated his crew for its safety record. About that time a sailor who had dozed off on the struts under the No. 2 elevator fell overboard. Angry Dixie flushed brick-red at the blot on the Ti's record. When a destroyer picked up the sailor and returned him, Dixie got on the loud speaker again: "If anyone wants to see that smart...
...things probably saved the Ti, her officers said: 1) a sailor in hangar-deck control, though he was knocked down, crawled through twisted steel and turned on the sprinkler system; 2) Dixie Kiefer ordered the ship's ballast shifted to make a 10-degree list to port - so the flaming gasoline ran off the hangar deck into the sea; then he changed course so that the wind blew the flames away from the ship...
Message to Tokyo. Not even optimists inferred from this new phenomenon that the enemy would quit when he saw his situation was hopeless. It was already hopeless and he did not quit. But many a soldier and sailor was ready to say that, at least to a few Japs, the U.S. had managed to communicate a vital message: surrender does not mean extinction, or even the loss of soldierly honor...
...Imogene Stevens, tiger-eyed Texas beauty, held in New Canaan, Conn, for the killing of a 19-year-old sailor at a neighbor's, house (TIME, July 9), had an emotional reunion at the county jail with her paratrooper husband, who flew in from Europe on a 30-day emergency leave to help her. Busy trying to get his wife's $50,000 bail reduced, Major George Ralsey Stevens III stoutly declared to reporters: "She did what any woman would have done...