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Just about the nicest thing about being with TIME is that we have so many swell people working for and with...
...watched U.S. Navy flyers set the Jap carrier Ryuzyo afire off the Solomon Islands. His own bomber slipped a torpedo into the ship from less than 800 yards, survived some stubborn Jap Zeros, got home. Singer figured he was lucky to get back alive. But it made a swell combat story...
Harvard Naval Training School becomes the largest such institution in the country as 600 student officers arrive, transferred from the Cornell school to swell the Yard total to over 1300, the Scuttlebutt announces...
...more members of what is without question the largest and is considered by some to be the brainiest class to enter in Harvard's history signed and shoved their way through the registration melee yesterday to swell the roster of the Class of '46 to within three of the predicted 1380. New Provisional Students swelled the total to 714 newcomers...
...windproof cigaret lighter gets a swell rating from 55% of the Army and 63% of the Navy (but fluid is not mailable). Other favorites: cigarets, leather wallets with insignia on them, pen & pencil sets, stationery, polarized sun glasses. The boys even want shoe brushes and razor-blade sharpeners. Special Army favorites: good regulation shirts and socks and extra government issue caps (of the right branch). But as Army and Navy provide full outfits for all except officers it is better not to send clothes unless specifically requested...