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Died. Hiram Edward Manville, 71, onetime head of Johns-Manville Corp.; after long illness; in Pleasantville, N.Y. Philanthropist, horseman, yachtsman, he sold his palatial Hi-Esmaro to the Navy in 1940, three years later learned that she had been sunk in the South Pacific...
...Hayataka-class* carrier sunk; two tankers sunk; a destroyer sunk; another Hayataka-class carrier "severely damaged and left burning furiously"; a Zuikaku-class carrier hit by three 1,000-lb. bombs; a light Zuiho-class carrier hit by two aerial torpedoes; another light carrier perforated by seven 500-pounders; a Kongo-class battleship, three cruisers, two destroyers and three tankers damaged. Of the few Jap planes remaining to defend their ships 26 had been shot down...
...baleful days the Jap Navy: ¶ Lost 30 ships sunk, plus two probably sunk. Fifty-one more were damaged. ¶ Lost 13 landing barges, complete with packed crews, most of them on the way to reinforce the garrison at Saipan. ¶ Lost 757 aircraft destroyed by U.S. aircraft...
After the scope of the project had sunk in, Pogue announced the really big news. He indicated that this was no phony warmup; this was the takeoff. He wanted to wait no longer for the U.S. to get its props into the postwar air. In short, he would open pre-hearing conferences, at which the applicants could show why they should get the best routes-within three weeks...
...what good does it do me? Last Friday I ran up to Memorial Hall to take my exam in Physics. I just sunk my teeth into the juiciest problem you ever saw, when "Bang Bang, Bwrrr-Bwrrr?Bwrrr," Cambridge starts drilling holes in Cambridge Street outside. After three-quarters of an hour of this, they carted me away to Stillman in a shoebox, kicking and screaming. I'm calm now, but I've got three more exams this week...