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...Navy. He has heard for years the U.S. Navy's boast that the Japs would be a pushover.* He knows how the cruiser Mogami, some of whose welded seams parted when she fired a full salvo on her trials, was exaggerated into a kind of saltwater One Hoss Shay. He knows how the little torpedo boat Tomoduru, which, because it was overloaded with guns and torpedo tubes and had insufficient displacement, tipped over on steam trials, was exaggerated into a great turtle-turning dreadnought, built from stolen plans...
...scorching day in 1862, a Boston Brahmin stood on the battlefield of Antietam, from which some 5,000 bodies had just been removed. The old man was the Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, the author of The Wonderful One-Hoss Shay and The Chambered Nautilus-Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes. He had heard that his son, Captain Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., 21, was shot through the neck, and he had dashed down from Boston to find the boy or his body. He found neither at Antietam. A week later, in Harrisburg, Pa., the Doctor ran into his son at last...
...Appointed as his fifth (of six) administrative assistants Sherman ("Shay") Minton, 50, defeated Senator from Indiana. Tall, black-haired, jut-jawed Mr. Minton, a 200% New Dealer, will get $10,000 a year; will not be used as liaison man with Congress-where his forthright tongue too often rasped colleagues...
Also shaken in his "safe" seat was the Democrats' Senate whip, Sherman ("Shay") Minton of Indiana. Atop the seesaw at mid-count was jelly-chinned, 65-year-old Editor Raymond Eugene Willis, a safe-&-solid Republican...
...Raymond Eugene Willis, 65, was one of nine children of an Indiana country editor, since 1907 has edited the Steuben Republican. Chubby-handed. chubby-chinned Editor Willis' hobby is helping crippled children (his wife is an invalid). His formidable 1940 task: to unhorse Democrat Sherman ("Shay") Minton...