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...Most celebrated example: the Dumaru, which sank in an electrical storm in the Pacific. The crew of one of her lifeboats sailed 1,300 miles to the Philippine Islands, one of the longest open-boat trips since Captain Bligh's 3,618-mile voyage in 1789. The starving survivors kept themselves alive by cannibalism. The menu: the chief engineer and a fireman-who (said the survivors) died of their own accord...
...Survivors of the torpedoed freighter Bold Venture said that approximately 15 submarines sank 13 vessels of a 53-unit convoy the night the American destroyer Reuben James went down...
Apparently the British released torpedoes at point-blank range and followed up with gunfire. Somehow in the darkness, with radio locators or searchlights, they spotted every ship in the convoy. They sank nine and left the tenth, a tanker, blazing fiercely. For good measure they sent down (by Italian admission) two enemy destroyers. Presumably the Italian cruisers, fearful that a British battleship was near by, turned tail and fled. The entire British squadron got back to Malta unscathed...
Somewhere west of Iceland the Reuben James was sunk. The Navy merely said ". . . by a torpedo during the night. . . ." Walter Sorensen was aboard when the torpedo hit. Rube had none of the Kearny's fancy compartmentation; she just holed and sank, and Walter Sorensen went into the sea with...
Clay-tile Tycoon Walter S. Dickey, who bought the Journal in 1921, bashed in his fortune trying to buck the Star. Utility-man Henry L. Doherty, who bought 50% control in 1931, sank about $300,000 a year in the Journal (plus $250,000 a year in utility advertising). His only profit: whatever satisfaction came from his hysterical series of libel and conspiracy suits totaling $54,000,000 against the Star for its hard-hitting campaign for lower gas rates (they were thrown...