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Frederic de Hoffman '45, a refugee from Hitler's invasion of Czechoslovakis, a veteran of London's worst bombing raids, and the only civilian, aboard a small Greek freighter in a British convoy, has been giving a series of broadcasts over the Crimson network on European affairs...
After waiting two years for a United States visa, de Hoffman sailed on a small freighter in the middle of a British convoy. "When attacked for the first time," he related, "we were some 300 miles off the coast of Western Ireland on a fairly clear night...
Though momentarily expecting to be hit themselves, the freighter was not touched and despite several more attacks, the convoy arrived in Norfolk...
When Manila was abandoned, U.P.'s Frank Hewlett, the New York Times's Nat Floyd, Reuters' Curtis Hindson escaped by automobile, which roared over bridges a few moments before they were dynamited. A.P.'s Clark Lee, Melville Jacoby and wife Annalee* caught a small island freighter at midnight on New Year's Eve as the Manila docks went up in flames. Other correspondents including LIFE'S Photographer Carl Mydans and his wife Shelley (also a staff photographer) were, so far as is known, captured in Manila...
...Portland they were talking about the Mauna Ala, which grounded while groping for the mouth of the Columbia River in a blackout, and the 60,000 Christmas trees which washed ashore while the freighter broke up. In San Francisco they were talking about flares dropped from an enemy plane, about lack of fish, shrimps, crabs (because the fishing fleets could not put out), about the Governor's fight with the Attorney General on what a state of emergency meant...