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Just before dawn the trawler North Star, inbound for Boston with a load of fish, caught sight of the Mary E. O'Hara's masts. Five of the crew were still hanging on. One man slipped off even as the North Star hove to alongside, but he was fished out alive. Another, frozen to his perch, had to be pried loose...
Silently in the Adriatic dawn a British light squadron felt its way along the Albanian coast to Durazzo, the old brown town 80 miles up the coast from the Strait of Otranto. The destroyer Hyperion was far out in front, scanning for enemy MAS and submarines. Suddenly a mine holed her badly-too badly, clearly, for her to get back to the straits and away before the Italians found her. For two hours she held her S O S, so that the main force could finish its job of shelling Italian batteries on the Albanian coast. Then she called...
...British, by all accounts, scored first, just at dawn, when a cruiser sighted two of Italy's torpedo boats, sank one at once. At 11 o'clock the Italians returned by air and were driven off by British fighters, but not before they had spotted the new position of the fleet...
...what he saw he developed a brilliant, surfacy prose, an ability to strike off a scene or a portrait in a dozen visual words whose cadence is a part of the mood; the power to evoke lyrically (with occasional lapses into tremolo) a moonlight night at Princeton, a summer dawn, reaches of land and water; a vest-pocket Proust's preoccupation with houses, furniture, streets. He had a masculine power to recreate the sensuous opulence of young women; a curiously feminine habit of seeing at a glance not only the color of people's hair and the shape...
CAIRO-Britain's empire army, unleashing a mighty "death blow" against the Italian base of Tobruk and its 20,000 to 30,000 entrapped defenders, has smashed more than five miles through the inner defenses of the Libyan strong-hold since dawn, it was stated officially tonight...