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Jumping the Gun. Newspapers had known of the desertions all along. But censorship had requested silence until those troops who did sail reached Britain. Last week, Toronto's impatient (and Government-baiting) Globe & Mail jumped the gun: "This newspaper . . . cannot . . . accept the censors' directions." After that...
Lindbergh of the Caravels. A successful Florentine businessman, and a famed astronomer and geographer, Vespucci did not become a sailor until he was 45. Then he proved himself a Lindbergh of the caravels, sailing to his destinations with cool calculations and almost without excitement. Where Columbus was visionary, gifted, brilliant and brave, Vespucci was industrious, modest, thorough. Readers of this scholarly new biography may feel that it was one of history's tragedies that Columbus and Vespucci did not sail together. Columbus was the great discoverer, but Vespucci sighted more new territory. He traversed 3,000 miles...
Gathering for the first time on Jan. 6, 1943, the 78th Congress set sail on a high tide of optimism. Minority Leader Joe Martin, congratulating Speaker Sam Rayburn on his reelection, had cried: "This . . . will be a Victory Congress. ..." History will determine just how much the 78th had to do with the ultimate U.S. victory. But during the past two years, a soberer-than-average Congress had: 1) asserted its independence of the Chief Executive; 2) financed the war with whopping appropriations; 3) made a fitful start on reconversion plans. More specifically, the 78th, neither the best nor the worst...
...Swedish Cellulose Co., said Sweden was ready to ship 300,000 tons of chemical pulp (for papermaking) to Britain, and one million tons to the U.S., as soon as the shipping blockade is broken. Some Swedish ships have already been loaded with pulp; he hoped they could sail soon...
...himself definitely sank 20 of those ships, totaling 35,500 tons, among them a destroyer and a 10,000-ton tanker; probably sank or damaged 46 totaling 28,350 tons, among them a light cruiser, a destroyer, two destroyer escorts. (Not included in that record: barges, sail boats, sampans. Miller sank so many that he was too embarrassed to report them...