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...Argentine yachtsman, Vito Dumas, sailed his 30-ft. yacht into the harbor at Wellington, New Zealand, last week after a lone voyage of 13,000 miles from the Rio de la Plata. Time: 159 days. His first question was: "Has Argentina declared war yet?" Told that Argentina was still anchored in neutral waters, lone Yachtsman Dumas made ready to sail on across the South Pacific to Chile...
Meeting in Rochester on the twenty-seventh, the eleven man squad got in a day of practice before starting on the game-a-night schedule. The lone win of the trip was over Michigan State with the losses coming at the hands of Rochester, Bradley Tech, Wisconsin, and Detroit...
Others were not so fortunate. Axis U-boats still scour the central Atlantic in packs, trying to break up Allied convoys en route to North Africa. North American coastal waters several hundred miles out have been cleared of subs, except for an occasional lone scout. But in the old North Atlantic graveyard, convoys to Russia and Britain suffer systematic and heavy attacks. Sixty-seven sinkings reported last week brought the war total up to 3,801 ships sunk, of which 2,029 were Allied ships. So far, 63,154 seamen of all nations have been killed or are missing...
...third period's lone tally was made after six and a half minutes of play, by Bill Sears. Ted Baker received credit for the assist...
...phlegmatic German Army sergeant and private struggled up a rugged, snowbound pass in the Pyrenees last week, stopped on the frontiers of the tiny State of Andorra. "We have orders to respect your frontier," said the sergeant to the lone frontier guard. Then they laughed and talked of other things, probably not of the 15 European countries invaded by Adolf Hitler...