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Going through its course of three months of basic communications, with an additional month of specialized communications for some men, the class will bear the uninspiring but informative serial number 445, the condensed date of its arrival. "445" will be made up of men ranking from ensign to lieutenant commander. The class will have a varied background since its complement will have come from sea duty, indoctrination school, and midshipmen's school. Yard dorms will, as before, provide quarters for the class...
...biggest surprise in the study was the apparent plentifulness of Japanese strategic metal supplies. The Japanese are wasteful and often clumsy in workmanship (e.g., apparently ignorant of the principles of stresses in metals, they weaken airplane connecting rods by making deep stencils of serial numbers in them). But the Japs have not had to be careful. They have enough copper to make their cartridge cases of brass, have been lavish in the use of nickel, zinc, manganese, aluminum and other precious alloys...
...rich and poor. Baker began to write such stories, fast. Once, staying at home while his wife and baby went to Michigan, he sat in the half-darkened dining room on hot summer mornings, went nowhere, saw no one, did not answer the doorbell, and finished a five-part serial for the Companion in a week...
...alumni deaths, 115 took place in the United States, 122 in the European war zone, 85 in the Asiatic area, with 13 recorded without specialized locations. Airplane crashes and serial combat account for 148 of the deaths...
Except for Saturday matinees in the neighborhood cinema circuit, the movie serial that reached its zenith of popularity with "The Perils of Pauline" has given way to series, unconnected in plot, but cast in the same mold: The Great Gildersleeve, Andy Hardy, Laurel and Hardy, Crime Doctor, Doctor Gillespie, Fibber McGeo and Molly. People find these entertaining, just as they like familiar Tchaikowsky and spurn Shostakovich, but no further contribution to a stagnating film-art can come from such mechanically-whipped froth. To use the vernacular, when you've seen one, you've seen...