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They managed to send an SOS to U.S. Admiral William Halsey-"by means which we cannot make public." He replied by sending a submarine to rescue them. For four days, until taken off by a patrol ship, they led their sisterly lives, said the rosary in the cramped, metallic quarters of the undersea craft...
Lieut. General Brehon B. Somervell, head of SOS, thinks business and the housekeeping part (supply, service, transport) of the Army are much the same. "After all," said a major last week, "there is no reason for misunderstanding on either side. This move certainly ought to make for a smoother pushing...
...overnight fishing trip. After dinner his daughter Pamela clambered into the dinghy and accidentally cast herself adrift without oars. Wakefield hauled up anchor and sailed after the girl but only went hard aground. The dinghy drifted on into a marsh while Wakefield frantically waved red flares for help and SOS'd till the batteries were dead. Nobody came. Pamela stumbled through the marsh to the home of a vacationing Coast Guardsman and next morning returned with him to the stranded yacht...
...peaceably around one table Wilson assembled with himself Maritime Commission's tough, sea-legged Rear Admiral Howard Leroy Vickery, Army's driving SOS chief. Lieut. General Brehon Burke Somervell, Navy Procurement's amiable Vice Admiral Samuel Murray Robinson, Army Air Corps Material's young Major General Oliver P. Echols. The gathering was heartening to look at. The results remained to be seen...
Army procurement regulations were 1,500 pages long, weighed 18 lb. Then Lieut. General Brehon B. Somervell, chief of SOS, came along. He got Colonel Albert J. Browning, who once resigned from SPAB because he could not stand red tape, to boil the regulations down. New size: 100 pages, one pound...