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...Trespassing" signs on eleven islands and one bay in the Pacific, Alaska and Caribbean defense areas. After May 14, Culebra Island, off Puerto Rico; Guam, Rose and Tutuila Islands in Samoa; Palmyra, Johnston, Midway, Wake Islands and Kingman Reef (stepping stones between Honolulu's Pearl Harbor and the Philippines); Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii; Kiska and Unalaska Islands, off Alaska, will be forbidden ground to all but U. S. armed forces...
This neo-paganism the Confessionals have fought fervently, the Lutheran Council less uncompromisingly. A reef-dodging diplomat, Bishop Marahrens is one of the three pre-Hitler Protestant bishops who has held on to his post, typifies an attitude of something-less-than-martyrdom. Under him, middle-of-the-road Protestantism's steady declaration has been: "Our bishop and council remain the legal authority of our church. . . . The Lord of the Christian Church is Christ, not Hitler...
...miles south and west of their destination, the Marquesas, began spelling out high adventure's ending. According to the messages, a Seventh-Day Adventist missionary, skirting the jungly, palm-lined shore of Vanua Levu Island in his ketch, had sighted a small, battered craft impaled on a coral reef. On board, to his horror, he found an emaciated woman prostrate and unconscious, another woman and a man both dead. On the stern of the boat was her name: Wing...
...Among the islands where Britain will lease air or naval bases to the U. S. are: 1. St. Lucia, Dominica, St. Thomas, Bermuda, Newfoundland. 2. Trinidad, Antigua, Bermuda, Newfoundland, Jamaica. 3. Trinidad, Martinique, Bermuda, Jamaica, Newfoundland. 4. Cocos, Bermuda, Jamaica, Trinidad, Barbadoes. 5. Newfoundland, Guantanamo, Great Barrier Reef, Trinidad, Bahamas...
After fighting long and hard against the strong groundswell of the publishing business, Scribner's Magazine last May crashed on a reef and foundered. But too old and honored was Scribner's to be abandoned utterly. First, Publisher Dave Smart of Esquire went salvaging on the spot where it had disappeared (TIME, Sept. 4), dredged up its 80,000 circulation at a reputed cost of $11,000. Then Publisher Charles Shipman Payson of The Commentator set out to salvage Scribner's itself...