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John Barrymore was stricken again, and gravely. Suffering from "an abdominal condition resulting from liver and kidney ailments," he was rushed to a Hollywood hospital, next day developed pneumonia, lapsed into semiconsciousness, four days later was still unconscious most of the time. Elder Brother Lionel, as before, subbed...
...been decided whether the stricken ship should be scrapped or salvaged. Only last week did a special committee of maritime experts decide definitely that salvage was possible. The job will be the biggest salvage operation in maritime history, will cost an undetermined number of millions of dollars, will take at best more than a year...
High above him a bomber circled, while an observer took movies of one of the great naval battles of World War II. He caught the zigzag wakes of six warships, dodging a shower of bombs, the telltale circulars of two stricken aircraft carriers steaming out of control, the streaking course of bellowing dive-bombers blasting at stricken ships...
Over the hungry and stricken land there rose once more the deep-throated roar of Jacques ("The Great") Doriot...
...Stricken visitors hurry on, only to find themselves in a dark corridor where the hands of a big clock whirl madly and a voice cries over & over: "The task is long -the time is short...