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Torpedoes launched from bombers tore at the dreadnoughts in Pearl Harbor. Dive-bombers swooped down on the Army's Hickam and Wheeler Fields. Shortly after the attack began, radio warnings were broadcast. But people who heard them were skeptical until explosions wrenched the guts of Honolulu. All the way from Pacific Heights down to the center of town the planes soared, leaving a wake of destruction...
...times were kept strictly confidential, Captain Bob Houghton and Fred Phinney looked particularly impressive in leading their respective heats in the three-quarter mile trails, while Bill Palson loped his eight laps in effortless style to finish with a less impressive time. To redeem himself, the smooth-striding star tore through a furious quarter-mile a few minutes later...
...Watervliet, Rock Island and Springfield Arsenals they wheedled a little obsolete equipment; from many a New England textile factory they got a machine or two, one 75 years old. A few new ones, destined for already-fallen France, were lifted from the docks. In its Hamden plant, High Standard tore down the outmoded machines; redesigned, rebored, rebuilt them to fit its production line. On March 15 production began; on April 19 the first gun was finished. Production is now 150 a day. There has been only one reject...
Died. Mme. Georgette Leblanc, 66, longtime intimate and "inspiration" of Belgian poet Maurice Maeterlinck; after a year's illness; in Le Cannet, France. In 1893, entranced by Maeterlinck's poetic mysticism, which she discovered after a chance reading of his essay on Emerson, she tore up her contract with the Opera Comique, left Paris for Brussels "to become the wife of the great Maeterlinck." Wearing on her forehead a blue diamond which she said was a symbol of happiness, Mme. Leblanc met Maeterlinck at a supper party, lived with him for more than 20 years, and maintained...
Mexico. John Gunther tore down the west coast of South America, then looped back north through Brazil and the West Indies. He began with Mexico, where he "flew over pyramids bigger than those in Egypt ... ate limes stuffed with coconut . . . found that Mexico is the country where the letter 'x' is pronounced three different ways... and where during one civic riot the taxicabs charged mounted cavalry like tanks-and won." He also talked to President Manuel Avila Camacho, who is "about as colorful as a slab of halibut," but "steady, cautious and efficient." In Mexico Gunther shed some...