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Subnappers. At Brest, France last week the Leftist submarine C-2 still lay tied up in the harbor awaiting repairs that were started three weeks ago. Out of the darkness appeared eleven Spaniards, one Frenchman in civilian clothes. They clambered down the companionway with word that they bore special sealed orders from Valencia. The C-2's commander, José Luis Ferrando, met his guests formally in the companionway, suddenly found himself squinting down the muzzles of a dozen pistols. The visitors actually were renegade Leftist officers from another Valencia submarine, the C4, also up for repairs at Bordeaux...
...honor of his virgin Queen Elizabeth. A previous settlement had already failed when in the summer of 1587 some 120 settlers under Governor John White landed at stout little Fort Raleigh, on the northern tip of the island. On Aug. 18 Governor White's daughter, Eleanor Dare, bore her husband Ananias, a daughter who was christened Virginia, first child born to English parents in the present U. S. Virginia Dare was nine days old when Governor White left his colony to sail back to England for more money and settlers. When he returned four years later, Fort Raleigh...
...Prenzlauerberg, Berlin's northeastern district, 100 new park benches were installed. Ninety-two bore the inscription "Jews Prohibited"; the remaining eight "Reserved for Jews." Der Angriff, mouthpiece of Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels, strongly recommended adoption of this "ghetto measure" in other Berlin districts...
...four-man teams from twelve clubs competing last week, strangest and best was that of the Chicago Lawn Bowling Club, all of whose members bore the name McArthur. Its skip, lean, 23-year-old Lachlan D. (for nothing) McArthur, created a sensation by his technique of swinging the bowl in a semicircle to warm up, following it anxiously down the green to encourage it by urgently waving his hands. Playing with his Uncles Duncan, Roger and James, young Bowler McArthur skipped Chicago Lawn successfully through the final against the Milwaukee Lawn Bowling Club...
Watching yacht races is a bore. Consequently, the sport normally attracts about as many spectators as a good game of ticktacktoe. Colossus of yachting is the series of races for the America's Cup. Consequently, watching America's Cup races would be a colossal bore except for one fact. So many people think they want to see the America's Cup races that almost no one does. Last week, 50,000 people and about $1,000,000,000 worth of privately owned boats were bouncing up and down on the Atlantic Ocean, off Newport, R. I. Nearly...