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...went down in 45 minutes off Harwich, near the grave of the Dutch Simon Bolivar, last fortnight's most tragic victim (85 dead). No lives were lost on Terukuni Maru nor on the Italian Fianona of 6,660 tons, which was blown open under the chalk cliffs of Dover but, with tugs, made the beach. The modern British destroyer Gipsy, after rescuing and landing three Nazi airmen who had flown over London's outskirts and abandoned their shot-up plane at sea in a rubber boat, was returning to her patrol off Harwich when an explosion that felt...
Beatrice Fisher '40, blonde senior from Dover, N. H., will break precedent when she leads her band down the stadium gridiron on Soldiers Field. Miss Fisher was previously replaced by a male leader this year, but she has been reinstated for the Harvard game...
...type of insurance: against death or injuries inflicted on the King's civilian subjects by the King's military enemies. Rate for this air-raid insurance: ?1 of premium for every ?100 of insurance. Rate for London is the same as that for Leeds or Rosyth or Dover or anywhere else; i.e., Lloyd's thinks that the attack, when it comes, may be general, not just local showers...
Meantime the Allied blockade of Germany became impressive. In The Downs from Broadstairs to Dover stretched a long line of merchantmen arrested and anchored pending examination. Aboard each was a guard of British seamen under a junior officer. Two British destroyers and a French gunboat patrolled the roadstead...
...France, a U. S. tourist, miffed when French customs agents warned her that the tax-free time limit on her $6,669 Cadillac had nearly expired and that she would have to take it out of the country or pay a heavy duty, embarked with it for England. At Dover customs officials barred the car's entry. Deeply miffed, she abandoned her Cadillac, had it dumped into...