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Miss Annie Rooney (Small; United Artists) is that old rug-cutter Shirley Temple, now 13, brown-haired, weighing 102 lb., standing a fraction over five feet, and desperately trying to maneuver through girlhood without losing her cinemappeal. It is tough sledding. Shirley Temple fans will have to suffer such inanities as Annie Rooney until she gets her growth...
...ship. He sent three torpedoes crashing into her. She burst into flames so explosively that a good half of her crew were trapped below. The rest, seared and oil-blackened, went overside, were carried out into the Gulf, there picked up by a Coast Guard cutter. Only 14 of her 41 lived to tell how they were attacked, only a mile and a half off the mouth of the country's greatest inland waterway. The U.S. Navy, faced with a greater-challenge than it had met in domestic waters since 1812, knew that it could never stop the filtering...
Even aside from the threat of surface raiders, the battle of the Atlantic was going badly. German torpedoes sent to the bottom a Canadian corvette and a Free French corvette, damaged a U.S. Coast Guard cutter so severely that it turned over while being towed to port and had to be sunk. Storm and high seas wrecked a U.S. destroyer and supply ship off Newfoundland (see p. 24). Tankers in U.S. coastal waters took a beating (see col. 2). The Germans claimed that seven ships totaling 52,000 tons had been destroyed in a running attack on one convoy...
...drunkenly but did not entirely sink. The sub, surfaced after the third shot, made no attempt to pick up survivors. A second officer insisted that his raft was fired on "five or six times" by the sub's deck gun. A fishing boat, U.S. destroyer and Coast Guard cutter picked up the 38 chilled survivors. Said blond, soft-voiced Skipper Hansen: "I thought we were just as safe there as in New York harbor...
...Between April 6, 1917 and Nov. 11, 1918, the U.S., according to Jane's Fighting Ships for 1918, lost 1 armored cruiser, 2 destroyers, 1 submarine, 3 armed yachts, 1 coast guard cutter and 2 revenue cutters?but not a single capital ship...