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...clock, stayed abed nearly twelve hours, rose for a late breakfast (prunes, oatmeal, toast and jelly, Sanka) and a look at Washington reports radioed or relayed by courier seaplane. The President suggested extra guests for dinner, i.e., Canberra's officers picked two at a time by wardroom draw for never-to-be-forgotten bread-breaking at sea with their commander in chief...
...picked up a "nose flute," used by South Pacific islanders who like to make music and chew betel nut at the same time. He was recently heard to play Abdul, the Bulbul Ameer on this odd instrument. At nights aboard the Helena, Pride's staff gathers in the wardroom for informal musical sessions, with the ship's paymaster banging out tunes on the spinet in the key of C (which is the only one he knows) while other musical officers toot away on harmonicas...
...sing to them when the guns are firing-that's your job!" Coward wanted to explain that this would be "impracticable, because during a naval battle all ships' companies are at action stations and the only place for me to sing would be in the wardroom by myself." But it was no use. Much as Coward yearned to do "something really constructive" for England, England demanded nothing but Coward's "facility for light entertaining." Future Indefinite, a sort of sequel to Coward's earlier Present Indicative (TIME, March 29, 1937), is Coward's story...
...Hanley fought his way topside, he saw steel bulkheads crumpled like tinfoil. Radiating out from the vicinity of the catapult room, the blast had smashed and seared its way through the forward part of the ship-through the junior officers' wardroom, where pilots lounged over an early cup of coffee; through the enlisted men's mess hall, and on into the enlisted sleeping quarters, where many a sailor was just blinking his eyes and wondering what the bonging call to general quarters was all about...
...Humphrey's shoulder and, looking at his balding head, said, "I see you part your hair the same way I do." Later, on board the cruiser Helena returning from Korea, Ike and Humphrey cottoned to each other even more. Hum phrey's dry, quick sallies in the wardroom often broke the atmosphere of heavy deliberation, to Ike's relief. And on deck, to Ike's surprise, Old Hunter Humphrey turned out to be every bit as good a skeet-shooter as Old Soldier Eisenhower...