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...launching last week of the Navy's second atomic submarine at Groton, Conn., 20,000 guests crowded into the Electric Boat shipyard and a Congressman's lady, Mrs. W. Sterling Cole of Bath, N.Y. cried, "I christen thee Seawolf.* Before she could swing the traditional champagne bottle, the sleek, 3,000-ton sub began sliding down the ways. To superstitious seamen, a botched christening means bad luck, but Elizabeth Cole made a last-second pitch, the twelve-ounce bottle of California champagne shattered, and bubbles splashed satisfactorily over the Seawolf's beflagged...
...first U.S.S. Seawolf, which sank 18 Japanese ships before it went down in World War II,* was one of the most famed boats in the U.S. Navy's submarine service. Last week, at Groton, Conn., Navy Secretary Robert Anderson presided at the keel-laying† of a new Seawolf, the second U.S. atomic-powered submarine. The first, the Nautilus, will be launched in January, and workmen were busy hammering and welding on its hull, while guests gathered on the adjoining ways for the Seawolf's ceremony...
...Seawolf, which will take ten months to finish, will be powered by an improved atomic reactor of higher speed than that used on the Nautilus. Both boats, Secretary Anderson explained, will be faster and more powerful than any undersea vessels ever built. Said Anderson: "For the first time in history, the Navy will have the ideal vessel to send under the sea to combat enemy submarines lurking in the depths...
...tragic mistake, the Seawolf, with all hands aboard, was depth-charged and sunk by a U.S. destroyer whose commander was not informed that Seawolf was in the area...
...Their Ears. Hearstling (New York Journal-American) James Horan (Out in the Boondocks, U.S.S. Seawolf) snapped up the offer. Desperate Men is the result of his year-long sifting of the Pinkerton files. On the strength of this new evidence, Author Horan makes a new appraisal: "[Jesse James] was a completely pitiless killer." His opinion of some of the other Old West badmen who turn up in the files is not much better...