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From deck chairs and other flotsam to which they clung, 18 people collected on a life raft. Four were children: Carol and Richard Shaw, whose mother and sister were drowned and whose father had vanished, and Mary and Robert Bell, whose missionary mother was rescued with them. Also dragged out of the sea was the torpedoed merchantman's skipper, 86-year-old Benjamin Bogdan of Brooklyn. Crowded on the raft, the 18 floated on the vast ellipse of the Caribbean. The sun beat down...
...Abandon Ship." "I can't bear to look at her," said a young ensign, 'watching from an escort. He turned his face and walked away. Slowly the York town turned on her side. Two planes clung like beetles to her slanting deck. "My God, she's going to capsize," an officer said, almost in a whisper. Then up went the blue & white flag: "Abandon ship...
...British clung to the contention that Mohandas K. Gandhi was a pacifist traitor, an irrational screwball and a menace to India's safety. The Raj would not admit that the plan to crush Gandhi's threatened civil-disobedience campaign by suppressing the National Congress party was a monumental failure...
...year eleven in the life of a pale, slight, impressionable little bourgeois boy who clung to a servant's hand in the battle-littered streets of Petrograd. Said the servant: "This is the revolution, Mitya." Young Dmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich only stared and clutched the servant's apron. But what he saw and heard he pondered in his precocious head. Once safe at home, he sat down and composed two pieces: Hymn to Liberty and Funeral March to the Victims of the Revolution. A prodigy and a prodigious event...
Farther west, where the bewildered Vichyfrench still clung to the ghostly pretense of control, the ground rumbled too. Two British planes swept over Algeria, were shot down by French craft. (Two more fell before French attack down the west African coast below Dakar.) Through that defeat-darkened land German technicians, military men and tourists prowled...