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Hollywood's latest attempt to publicize an actress through the Lampoon's annual "worst" list ran aground yesterday, when Lampy President Robert C. Benchley Jr. '43 laughed off a Coast-provoked Tufts College challenge to a public debate on the merits of Veronica Lake...
Despite such obstacles, Pan Am's work progresses both aground and aloft. Two years ago Pan Am operated 35% of South America's airlines; now it operates 63%. Axis espionage and sabotage will be lessened if & when Lati and Condor pack up and leave, as other Axis lines in South America have already...
...Army Transport Service last week announced its largest induction to date: the 24,289-ton liner Manhattan, chartered (for $2,000 a day plus $300 war-risk insurance) from U.S. Lines. Brooklyn shipyard workers are repairing her bottom (injured by the Florida sand bar on which she ran aground in January), installing extra bunks for troops, preparing her for her first Army voyage on June 18-through the Panama Canal to Hawaii with soldiers and materiel...
...what would you do with these facts" questions, but rather are invariably tests of detail memorization--except for the navigation problems, which an even higher percentage of prospective officers final. In fact, on the basis of November Hour navigation marks the majority of the Junior Class would run aground in Hawaii en route from Boston to New York...
Having sold his $2,500,000 yacht Corsair IV to the British Government last spring, J. P. Morgan chartered the 115-ft. motor yacht Inishowen V for the New York Yacht Club's annual cruise, ran aground off Fishers Island...