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With a shattering roar an explosion forward of the engine room threw the vessel violently on its beams, next minute a second torpedo crashed into the engine room. In an instant the whole ship was a hell of fire and water. Through the gaping holes in her sides, water poured...
New York 9, Washington 4, (2nd game, called after 6 1/2 innings, darkness.)
Last week Tim Pile was told that his men must bear a heavier burden of defense. One night air-raid wardens circulated through their districts, saying: "There'll be a hell of a racket tonight, but don't worry, it's something our boys are putting up...
To the telling of this lurid, rather hopped-up tale Rumer Godden brings three saving graces: an acute sense of psychological tension and overtone, a coolly notable skill at prose, a peculiar ability in atmospheres (she seems particularly to be obsessed with the look of pale things in darkness). These...
IN THE DARKNESS-Lothrop Stoddard-Duell, Sloan & Pearce ($2.75).