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...badly needed by U. S. steel plants making War munitions. She slipped over the Caribbean horizon and, though no enemy warship was thought to be in the vicinity, she never was heard from again, by wireless or otherwise. Searching craft found no trace of wreckage. Of the 293 people aboard, no body was ever recovered. Said Wartime Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels in his report that year: "There has been no more baffling mystery in the annals of the Navy...
When Amy Johnson, England-to-Australia flyer (TIME, June 2), arrived in Perth on her triumphal tour of Australia's cities, a youth climbed aboard her motor from the cheering mob, tried to kiss her. She narrowed her eyes, drew back her hand, bloodied his nose...
...Even if Columbus had not discovered America," continued Dr. Charcot, "he would have gone down in history as the Admiral who first provided seamen with hammocks in which to sleep aboard ship. . . . Columbus was also one of the first great vegetarians. . . . He lived on fruits and vegetables almost exclusively and never drank alcoholic drinks, preferring water with a little sugar in it. . . . His use of perfumes was his only bad habit. All in all he was a clean, religious man. But he used to spray himself profusely with attar of roses and essence of black currants...
Once prominent in Bangkok's fish fighting halls. Wat Chant Aiur Bopiter was brought to the U. S. aboard the Cook's-touring S. S. Franconia, is now destined for a life of retirement in a Manhattan fish-fancier's private aquarium...
Other women aboard the flaming Fairfax congregated astern. Some prayed, some sang the University of Maine's "Stein Song."* Finally the holocaust was quenched, the radio repaired, help obtained from S.S. Gloucester of the same line, which hurried passengers to Boston hospitals. Leaving a pool of fire fed for hours by the submerged Pinthis, the Fairfax limped in under her own steam...