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Zochariah Chafee, Jr., Langdell Professor of Law, yesterday sharply criticized the proposed Mundt-Nixon Bill for control of subversive activities, saying that using it to check Communists "is like using hammer to swat a wasp on a baby's head...
...hope of exterminating them in Hawaii; the flies are too firmly dug in. But the entomologists hope to reduce the fly population and thus reduce likelihood of an invasion of the U.S. mainland. One line of attack is to look for the flies' insect enemies. A Malayan wasp is the best fighter found so far, but it has not yet proved effective in Hawaii...
...Wasp plowed in formation through a bright Pacific sea, 300 miles southeast of Guadalcanal, three Jap torpedoes struck home. Fire reared high from her ruptured tanks; gasoline spread around her in a sea of flames. Like many another skipper, Sherman had long before figured out just what he would do if he "caught a fish." In an inferno of smoke and exploding ammunition, he maneuvered his ship so that the flames blew away from the hull, backed her stern clear of the flaming, gasoline-covered water. Sherman was the last man to leave. He was burned, and badly shaken...
Three Torpedoes. Sherman was also a fighter. After Pearl Harbor, he begged for a chance at combat, got command of the Wasp, a small (14,700 tons) carrier that was already outdated by the new Essex-class flattops then abuilding. Under him the Wasp was a taut, efficient and happy ship. The flight plan he worked out for his air group became the pattern through the War for all U.S. carriers...
Admiral Sherman was an unusual man -brilliant, modest and, at 53, one of the youngest officers ever proposed as Chief of Naval Operations. His World War II record was impressive. He commanded the aircraft carrier Wasp until she was shot out from beneath him in the Solomons in 1942. During the final years of the war he was Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz' "brain"; he helped plan the great sweep across the Pacific from Tarawa to Okinawa...