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...social life, Miss Stevens (Wood) is not especially partial to glamor boys, and says her only "must" for an escort is a sense of humor. She stated with evident satisfaction that she had never been out with a Yale man; as the positive phase of a wise social policy, she has dated a Harvard man, Frank Appleton '39: "We had a swell time," she said. "But I wouldn't go to one of those Lampoon parties for anything ," she concluded. The CRIMSON reporter congratulated her on her good judgment...
Aerial reconnaissance warned the British last Thursday that the Bismarck and her escort, the 10,000-ton cruiser Prinz Eugen, had left the Norwegian port of Bergen for a dash for the open sea to raid the Atlantic convoys. Powerful units were at once mobilized to intercept them. At dawn Saturday, she was engaged by the Hood and the Prince of Wales. The Hood was destroyed "with very few survivors" by a lucky hit on her powder magazine at a range of more than 13 miles. But in the battle the Bismarck was slowed down...
...Senator who always has time to escort movie actresses about the Capitol...
Ships. German claims and British admissions of merchant shipping lost in the evacuation were even more divergent than Atlantic claims and admissions. The Germans claimed 305,000 tons "destroyed." The British admitted losing a destroyer, an escort vessel, one loaded and three empty transports (see p. 38): probably not more than 30,000 tons. The Germans doubtless counted in much Greek and Yugoslav shipping which was either caught in harbor or bombed while evacuating civilians...
...would take time to ease the burden on Atlantic Coast shipyards enough to take on in full this additional job. The one really effective action that the U.S. could take this year would be to begin convoying-or patrol the sea lanes to ease the work of escort vessels...