Word: wasps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...limped to Mare Island, Calif, for permanent repairs. With new men aboard, she sailed for the South Pacific, trained incessantly at the job her men prized most-gunnery. She made two runs to Guadalcanal, served as escort for the carrier Hornet, then joined the task force which included the Wasp. The Helena was there when the Wasp was torpedoed, took aboard many of the survivors...
Died. Elinor Sutherland Glyn, 78, the sex novel's impeccable grandmother; in London. At 27, red-haired Elinor Sutherland attracted longtime bachelor and coupon-clipper Clayton Glyn with her wasp waist, green eyes, and the social splash she made when four white-tied suitors leaped into a lake at her command. In 1892 (she claimed) he hired Brighton's swimming baths for their exclusive honeymoon use. In Three Weeks (1907) she revealed the effects on each other of a Swiss hotel, a Russian enchantress, a clean young Englishman, and a tigerskin rug. In Hollywood in 1927 she modernized...
...that he is on his own. How to get off a sinking ship, what the well-dressed man in the water should wear, are suggested in the U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings for July. The author: Lieut. Commander William C. Chambliss, U.S.N.R., himself an involuntary absentee from the aircraft carrier Wasp...
Going in by plane was John Hersey, veteran of Guadalcanal and of the sea fight in which the Wasp was lost. His first assignment had been to stick close to American headquarters in Algiers and get the all-over invasion picture...
...Department to join General Eisenhower's men in North Africa. He'd had his bags all packed for three weeks, waiting for the call. (The last time I wrote you about Hersey he was just back from Guadalcanal and the sea fight where they sank the carrier Wasp-and since then you may have read his best-selling story of a skirmish in the Solomons, Into the Valley...