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This time Curley wriggled under the hottest spotlight he has yet faced- indictment by a Federal grand jury. The charge: Curley and five other men (including Donald Wakefield Smith, a former member of NLRB) used the mails to mulct suckers through a war-contracts racket called Engineers Group, Inc. The company claimed an ability to wangle equally fat contracts for new clients. Fees as high as $9,000 were accepted. Actually, the Government charges: Engineers Group has no advisory board, no contracts, no legal ability to get contracts...
...Coast Guardsmen manned the U.S.S. Wakefield (formerly the Manhattan) when she rescued women & children from under Jap barrages at Singapore. Months later, in the Atlantic, they got off all the soldier and civilian passengers when she caught fire, then towed her blackened hulk to port for repairs...
Steinberg was about to go to war, but he would leave behind him a wickedly funny, highly distinctive body of work that augured well for a great postwar career. At Manhattan's Wakefield Gallery, Steinberg was giving his first U.S. one-man show-water colors, tempera and line drawings like the sidesplitting And How Is Business...
That night, Wakefield boarded a 43-ft. schooner for an 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...
...Wakefield's circular Admiral Greenslade replied that 50,000 Japs could not have landed because the Navy has "detecting devices" to pick up plane motors. He offered no good answer why nobody detected Wakefield's frantic signals. Silent General De Witt was more interested. He silently sent a major around to find...