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Latest edition of the Elizabethan epics, complete with duel, is "The Sea Hawk," which is a long-winded account of Geoffrey Thorpe, a nautical counterpart of Jesse James, who drained the Spanish Main of every ingot of gold t'other side of Lisbon. He gets his fingers burned in Panama, re-crosses the Atlantic as a galley-slave, beats up on the Spanish crew, sails the galleon to England and single-handed saves the British Empire from the Spanish Armada. All of which goes to show that England cannot be invaded,--we-hope-we-hope-we-hope...
Four correspondents and a cameraman -weary after many a sleepless night, nerve-racked from continual bombardment -last week boarded an Atlantic Clipper at Lisbon, returned to the U. S. from the wars. They were: the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette's Ray Sprigle, whose report on Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black's onetime Ku Klux Klan connections won him a Pulitzer Prize in 1938; Lloyd Allan Lehrbas of Associated Press, one of a lucky handful of newsmen who happened to be in Poland last year when Adolf Hitler's army moved in with them; Cineman Arthur Menken, who filmed...
During the final collapse of France, Morize managed to keep one day ahead of the Germans, joining the mass trek of refugees with his car filled with three trunkloads of official records. He had to wait 10 days in Lisbon before he could find a space on the clipper to America...
Last week the people in the U. S. had their first public report on the status of the Battle of Britain from a U. S. expert who had the best possible chance of knowing. Brigadier General George V. Strong flew home from London, via Lisbon, after a month in Britain with a U. S. Army observation commission. The U. S. Army has always shown considerable respect for German power and generalship, but General Strong was optimistic about Britain's chances. He said that in Britain there had been "as yet no serious military damage"; that British claims of German...
When peace was decided on, Morize decided to return to Cambridge, but until this month he was unable to secure his visa to the United States. He is now believed to be travelling to Lisbon to catch a trans-Atlantic clipper...