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...weary party straggled in trucks. From northwest Sumatra to a port of embarkation for Batavia they traveled in pony carts, spurred on by native tomtoms pounding out an air-raid warning. At the port Yates McDaniel saw "the most beautiful sight I ever expect to see a British destroyer hull down on the horizon, steaming full speed toward the harbor." The destroyer carried them to Batavia, where, for the first time in eleven days, Yates McDaniel could file his story, then crawl into...
...that afternoon the Lafayette burned. Held back by policemen, Army & Navy patrols, crowds choked the streets, jammed skyscraper windows. Among the watchers was a small, greying man with a heavy accent. With agonized eyes Vladimir Yourkevitch, naval architect, designer of the ship's hull, watched the Lafayette burn. Suspicious policemen refused to let him through the lines. In the pier shed beside the ship, tall, urbane Rear Admiral Adolphus Andrews, Chief of the Third Naval District, watched...
General Douglas MocArthur's 43-year-old wife, Jean, and four-year-old son, Arthur, are still in the Philippines, still safe, Cordell Hull disclosed. Meantime in Washington the General's first wife, Louise Atwill, fiftyish, now the wife of ex-Matinee Idol Lionel Atwill, said she has lately been getting "hundreds of letters from hysterical people who demand to know in detail why I divorced MacArthur." Also received: newspaper queries on the color of the General's eyes and hair; a fat offer from a syndicate for his early love letters...
...Stevenson's Treasure Island; Du Maurier's Trilby; E. N. Westcott's David Harum; John Fox Jr.'s The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come; Florence Barclay's The Rosary; Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm; Pollyanna; The Calling of Dan Matthews; E. M. Hull's The Sheik; America's Part in the World War, by R. J. Beamish and F. A. March, which was published...
Suddenly a torpedo ripped into the tanker's hull on the port side. Ten minutes later another direct hit was scored from starboard. In something like 14 minutes Captain Harold Hansen and his men (save two, who slipped from sight) were struggling with lifeboats and life rafts in the chilling, oil-drenched water. A third, final torpedo struck again from port side. The 9,577-ton tanker canted drunkenly but did not entirely sink. The sub, surfaced after the third shot, made no attempt to pick up survivors. A second officer insisted that his raft was fired on "five...