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...have two sons. One is an ensign in the U. S. Naval Reserves, the other will be of draft age in June. Still I can't believe that our program should not be an all-out effort to crush the dictators, instead of trying to appease them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: The U. S. and the War | 3/10/1941 | See Source »

...docks while her old body is torn apart and filled with new organs. The human action is a series of bloody brawls, the friendships and conflicts of men too close together for too long a time. Included in the novel's 496-page sweep are three brilliant novelle: Ensign Woodbridge's encounter with the hypocritical missionaries, the story of the Irish monk and the satanic trader, Parker, and Seaman O'Connell on a berserk rampage. Included also is many a burst of virtuoso prose, in which Author Goodrich compares the ship to a walled town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A World of 71 Men | 2/24/1941 | See Source »

...Boyle. Another ?1,000 went to 26-year-old Oswald Ross Preston, U. S. volunteer to the R. A. F., now on duty with the Eagle Squadron, because he played a "magnificent" part when the battle started. To his prize money the crew added the tattered red ensign of the San Demetrio, never hauled down till she reached the Clyde...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: 16 Men & A Burning Ship | 1/27/1941 | See Source »

Lieut. Hanson and Ensign Robert B. Clark, the copilot, stuck by the ship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR: Ship Over Texas | 1/13/1941 | See Source »

...four jumpers did not have long to thank their stars. A Navy transport (Douglas R3D-1) flew from San Diego, picked them up, headed back without Lieut. Hanson and Ensign Clark. Again, the plane belted into a storm, got within 40 miles of San Diego and safety. A work man on the ground thought that he saw flame in the sky; a rancher heard the transport's engines, flying low, then heard a distant crash. When searchers reached the top of Mother Grundy Peak, they found the smashed ship, eleven bodies, nobody alive to tell just what had happened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR: Ship Over Texas | 1/13/1941 | See Source »

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