Word: bennington
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hero of the attack was Lieut. Commander L. W. A. Bennington, commander of a submarine force (the "Porpoise Carrier") which kept Malta alive at the height of its blockade. In the Pacific, his submarine crept through the grey-green waters of the Bay of Bengal, past the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, which screen the Singapore-Rangoon sea lanes, scouted the narrow (225 mi.) northern approaches of the Malacca Straits. He attacked and sank three large cargo vessels, sighted the cruiser and closed at full speed...
...Nancy Oakes, Countess de Marigny is a dignified married woman, a fabulous heiress and a student at outdoorsy Bennington College. Her husband is in jail, held on suspicion of the murder of her father. Somebody killed Sir Harry Oakes at Westbourne outside Nassau during a tropical thunderstorm on the night of July 7. Nancy is sure it was not her husband, Count Marie Alfred de Fouguereaux de Marigny. "Freddy could not have done this terrible thing," she has explained over & over. "I know he did not do it. ... I am the only person who can help...
...Miami, Nancy told her mother that she was pregnant. On doctors' advice the pregnancy was terminated: Nancy was too weak. Sir Harry forbade the Count his house. At about that time Sir Harry and Lady Oakes changed their wills. In the spring Nancy left Nassau, enrolled at Bennington...
...last year Helena Hall, a vacationing Bennington girl, found a yellowed manuscript in the family attic. The manuscript was Caroline Le Roy Webster's diary of her trip to Europe (1839) with her husband, Senator Daniel Webster of Massachusetts, and his daughter Julia. Published for the first time, as Mr. W. and I, this long-lost journal has the stylistic simplicity of a 19th-Century...
...Saratoga, 1777. General John Burgoyne tried to drive down from Canada in order to join the British commander, Howe, on the Hudson, but was so roughly handled at Bennington and in two engagements near Saratoga, that he capitulated. News of Burgoyne's surrender impressed Louis XVI of France enough to make him sign an alliance with the U.S. Within a few weeks, France and Britain were at war. Total U.S. casualties: 80 killed, 190 wounded...