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...broadcast was coming from. Even studio technicians of Washington's WOL were in the dark. The program was being piped into the station by telephone, but the control panel gave no clue about its origin. Mysteriously unavailable were WOL General Manager William B. Dolph and Program Director Madeline Ensign. The whole thing had a fine conspiratorial flavor, which was quite in keeping with the business at hand-a radio interview with burly, gap-toothed Jan Valtin (real name: Richard Julius Herman Krebs), who has been hiding out fearful of lethal attention from the GPU and Gestapo ever since...
...ENSIGN JOHN HITCHCOCK...
...ENSIGN NEAL HESTON...
...with the Marines at San Diego, Calif.) and Elliott (captain in Army air procurement at Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio), 26-year-old Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. quit his job as a Wall Street lawyer, prepared to leave wife and small son, report as ordered April 3 for service as ensign of the Naval Reserve, aboard the destroyer Mayrant. Next day, fourth and youngest son John, 25, convalescing at the White House after a minor operation, got a commission too-as ensign in the Navy supply corps. His probable first assignment upon being called: to enroll in Philadelphia's Naval...
...British light cruiser Leander, operating with a New Zealand naval squadron, came on a merchant ship flying the British Merchant Marine's red ensign, but plying alone, unconvoyed, unidentified. Leander ordered her to halt. The lone ship's answer was to pull down the "red duster," hoist Italian colors, and blaze a broadside from 4.7-inch guns mounted on forecastle and poop. She was an Italian raider. Leander, with crushing superiority in speed and fire power, closed in and destroyed her "promptly." She was identified as Ramb I, 3,667-ton freighter with a cruiser stern, built...