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...unofficial reports reaching the State Department this week, the 4,999-ton Robin Moor, bound from New York for Cape Town with eight passengers and a crew of 35, was "torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine" in the South Atlantic May 21. A Brazilian ship rescued eleven survivors adrift 18 days in a lifeboat. If the reports were correct, this was the first U.S. ship torpedoed in World...
...airplane; Soldiers Pietro Badoglio and Rodolfo Graziani to retirement; Loudmouthpiece Roberto Farinacci to an unknown fate in Albania. Each of these men possessed great influence over some segment of the Italian people, from royalty to hoi polloi. With the purging of Starace, Benito Mussolini had cut himself even more adrift from connection with the 43,500,000 Italian people...
...hours of darkness, Rossetti and Paolucci maneuvered this strange craft through and over the nets and booms of the harbor, removed one of the war heads and attached it to the side of the battleship Viribus Unitis, pride of the Austrian Navy. The other war head they cut adrift in the tideway. The former sank Viribus Unitis, the latter drifted against and blew up the battleship Wien...
...survivors had been adrift eight days while heavy seas broke over the boat. Six of the lifeboat's occupants were children. Hero of the group was a 21-year-old nurse, who stowed the children forward under a tarpaulin, continually massaged the chill from their bodies and told them wild adventure stories to keep them happy. Said one of the rescued children: "We didn't have breakfast any day. The first meal was lunch. Each of us got half a biscuit. Sometimes with it we got a piece of sardine, or a little bit of meat...
Safari (Paramount). A graduating class of Columbia University, asked to say with whom they would best like to be cast adrift on a desert island, chose blonde, ladylike Madeleine Carroll. Safari promises to reduce this dream to reality when, as Linda Stewart, Cinemactress Carroll is taken by her wealthy admirer Baron de Courland (Tullio Carminati) on a jungle expedition led by dashing Jim Logan (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.). When the matter-of-fact Baron spends most of his time bagging specimens, Linda undertakes to jog him into jealousy and a proposal by flirting with Jim. The moment seems to have arrived...