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Japanese seismologists were still mulling over the subsea earthquake which shook and wave-smashed their islands a fortnight ago. At Tokyo's Earthquake Research Institute, Dr. Takahiro Hagiwara, one of Japan's leading seismologists, could not yet put his finger on the exact "epicenter," the place where the earth's crust had suddenly yielded, loosing the earthquake's force. He thought it lay somewhere off the east coast of Shikoku Island, where the sea is 10,000 feet deep. Careful soundings might eventually show that the sea bottom had moved a few yards. This would have...
Baffled, the Army called in the Navy, and the Navy, which had noise trouble of its own, appealed to Biologist Charles H. Blake of M.I.T. What subsea gremlin, they asked, was making the uproar? "Fish," said Professor Blake...
...Pacific Coast's most striking artists got blackballed last fortnight by the streamlined and businesslike Los Angeles County Museum. He promptly raised a willywaw, of the sort that gets pictures talked about. The man who raised the rumpus is Hilaire Hiler, whose great sleek murals of subsea fauna and the oceanic origins of life are a feature of San Francisco's handsome public bathing pavilion in Aquatic Park (TIME...
...Navy Comes Through (RKO-Radio). This run-of-the-mine slambanger comes through hell on three levels (sea, air and subsea) and large quantities of high water (the North Atlantic) while telling the simple story of the Sybil Gray, a munitions-laden laggard from a United Nations convoy. It comes through the mutual animosities of Chief Petty Officer Pat O'Brien and disgraced, re-enlisted Sailor George Murphy so predictably that by the picture's end they are brothers-in-law (with the help of Nurse Jane Wyatt). It also comes through at the seams, so abundantly that...
...Navy was trying hard. Its job was extraordinarily tough. The Nazi subsea technique and ships have greatly improved since World War I. U-boat packs have a host of devices to permit their skulking and striking with greater safety. Destroyers are no longer the complete answer. U-boat skippers outfox destroyers by outmaneuvering them with fast turns underwater. And the Navy had not enough destroyers to convoy both in coastal waters and cross-ocean supply routes...