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Texas fan that Callas' tractability might have something to do with the fact that she has about run out of major operatic stages on which to sing. Said he, in an answer worthy of La Divina herself: "We can build 'em faster...
These departures in the department will be partly filled by new appointments. Yale professor Erich Auerbach, author of Mimesis, has been appointed a visiting professor to teach Singleton's former course, Italian 120, "Dante's Divina Comedia." A specialist in Renaissance literature from Columbia has been named to the instructorship vacated by Perella...
...Thursday, Jan 12, the little (643-ton) Swedish motor tanker Divina was plowing out of the Thames estuary, four miles from shore, between Red Sand Tower and the Shivering Sand banks. Second Mate Franz Leipelt, officer on watch, and a British pilot were on the bridge. At the helm, Swedish Able Seaman Herbert Tonning guided his ship at a cautious 10 knots through a calm, moonless night. From the bridge came a shouted order. Tonning spun the wheel, hard. He heard the crunch of steel on steel. Captain Karl Hammerberg, hunched over a pot of tea in the officers...
...Matter of Minutes. Water gushed into the forward torpedo room through the hole made by the Divina's prow. Before the lights went out Civilian Stevens had a chance to check the depth gauge: the Truculent rested on the bottom, 42 feet below the surface. "I knew then that an escape could be made," said Stevens. "All that worried me was what would happen...
...Idea." All this time, the Admiralty did not know that the Truculent had been lost. Divina's Captain Hammer-berg explained: "I had no idea we had struck a submarine. We all thought it was some kind of surface vessel and that there would be survivors swimming in the water. We did what I considered-and still consider-the proper thing. We launched a lifeboat and threw out life belts. The survivors we did pick up were not in any fit state to talk and we continued rescue operations without realizing that it was a submarine...