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...most important forms of aid which the U.S. is giving Britain was until last week practically a secret from the American people. Waterfront strollers (and every Axis consul who is on the job) have seen British warships putting into East Coast ports where there are U.S. Navy yards-putting in for supplies, overhaul, repairs of battle and storm damage. But only over the bellowing body of Secretary of the Navy Knox (see p. 41) could any paper mention any of them. So it remained for a higher authority to give the public an idea of how much was going...
...voice of the President of the U.S. Did it carry to the waterfront streets of San Francisco? There 1,700 machinists, denounced by Government and labor officials, were still on strike. Three weeks' work on almost half a billion dollars worth of naval vessels had already been lost. A Senate committee summoned hard-eyed Harry Hook, strike leader, to explain why. Senator Truman demanded to know whether he had heard the President's address. Said Hook: "No, I was busy on other matters." He hadn't read it either...
Alexandria was busy last week, but not frightened. In the hotels along the placid, sweeping arc of waterfront, civil servants gathered to talk, listen to radio reports, and read the Reuters ticker. In canteens back in the town, soldiers and sailors waited for orders and talked about this chance to crack the Jerries. The fleet was massed in west harbor behind Ras el Tin Point, and in the harbor there was a bustle of ships oiling, coaling, painting, refitting, storing, watering, signaling back & forth. Troops poured into town from East Africa, furious that their winter work was canceled...
...Gazeeki's "The Secret Weapon" is a quite intriguing historical vignette concerning Uncle Sam's Spanish War cruiser which fired sky torpedoes by compressed air and had greater speed in reverse than ahead. R. H. Mansfield surveys "What's Going On" along Harvard's waterfront and reports that only five men out of the-thirty-seven Seniors in the N.R.O.T.C. are contemplating a civilian postgraduate career. Most interesting to landlubbers, though, is the Gallup poll which E. W. Garrison has made of the Harvard sailors. The local gobs prefer destroyers to battleships, ships to planes, and blondes or brunettes...
...where young women gather, he escapes such masculine calumny as sometimes finds its way toward the ears of Clark Gable. Boyfriends and husbands watch him without defensive squirming. Had Coop been a longshoreman he might well have been the most popular, if not the most active, man at the waterfront bars. Had he gone to Yale he might well have been the Most Popular Man in his class. As it was, he went to Hollywood and became the most popular man in the nation-an ideal choice for Capra-Riskin's Meet John...