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...President gave his formal assent to the presentation by Secretary Wilbur of the Navy Cross to Captain George Fried, a Naval Reservist, who was in command of the U. S. liner Roosevelt which rescued the crew of the British freighter Antinoe...
From the British Admiralty came an announcement last week that the mysterious "sinking without a trace" of the great monitor submarine M-1 (TIME, Nov. 23) is now thought to have resulted from a collision with the little Swedish freighter Vidar, of only 2159 tons, off the coast of Devonshire...
...comes the news of a drum of steel cable aboard an Atlantic freighter, that shook loose in a storm, crashed into the forecastle, plunged back and forth as the ship tossed on heavy seas, killed two men asleep in their bunks, and injured dozens of others before it could be secured. If Hugo was not a prophet, at least he can lay some claim to veracity...
...Harbours of Memory" is his latest volume, and in it one may travel on an antiquated freighter from London to sunny Mediterranean ports. He shares with his readers the stifling atmosphere of a submarine chaser on a sultry summer afternoon off the coast of Spain. One can dreamazily with him of other ports and climes, and all the while may remain in the easy chair in his study while the logs on the hearth crackle merrily and the snow falls softly in the Yard outside