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...raiders were German planes, navigating by direction-finding radio. R.A.F. electronic defenses diverted them from their true course, later lost control of the planes' movements. Over Eire, Nazi bombardiers laid their eggs squarely on what they thought was Belfast...
General Dwight D. Eisenhower last week got his first honorary doctorate from a U.S. university (he already has degrees from Oxford, Toronto, Louvain and Belfast). Accepting an LL.D. from Boston University's veteran President Daniel L. Marsh, he asked a pointed question. Said...
Next of Kin. Early last summer, when Bob Hope was about to board an Army bomber for Belfast, he was asked who should be notified in case of his injury or death. He named Hearstling Parsons as his next of kin. "She'd be mad," he explained, "if she wasn't the first to know...
Reluctant Believer. Red-cheeked, balding, Belfast-born, Clive Staples Lewis, 45, has been tutor and lecturer at Oxford's Magdalen College since 1925, teaches medieval English literature. His lectures are an Oxford rarity: they are jampacked. During World War I he served in France with the Somerset Light Infantry, was invalided home. His aunt, says he, was relieved to learn that the wound in his back came from a misdirected British shell, and was not an indication that he had been running away from the Germans...
...darkness of Arctic winter, the cruisers Belfast, Norfolk and Sheffield had first sighted the Scharnhorst steering for a Russia-bound convoy. They attacked at once. After two engagements, in which both sides scored hits, the Scharnhorst fled southward only to be intercepted by the Duke of York and a task force somewhere above the North Cape. Hits by the British battleship gave the destroyers a chance to slip in for a torpedo attack, after which the Duke of York pounded the Scharnhorst to a helpless hulk, and a final torpedo attack by the cruiser Jamaica, the Belfast and four destroyers...