Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...saving the life of an injured Army pilot who had crashed his plane into Long Island Sound, Lucien H. Warner Jr. '45, of Mystic, Connecticut and Weld Hall, has become Harvard's latest war hero...
...recent release by the Rhode Island division of the Selective Service System was designed to answer the eternal question of what actually happens to a draftee when he is called into active service and reports to an Army induction center...
...Rommel hanging on in Libya by the skin of his gritty teeth, the bombings probably covered a concerted German effort to get reinforcements to his Afrika Korps and put him back on the offensive. By bombing Malta, the Axis had probably rendered ineffective any R.A.F. bombing operations from the island. As a result, Axis shipping has an even chance of getting to Tripoli and Tunis unbombed, either at base or in transit...
...conquered early last spring. The Nazis had quit trying to dislodge Yugoslavia's General Draja Mihailovich from the cold mountains southwest of Belgrade and had retired to that city to await warmer weather. General Mihailovich was issuing passports for "Unoccupied Serbia," which he also called "an island of freedom...
Wealthiest Swede since Kreuger, Axel Wenner-Gren is a mysterious globetrotter, one of the last of the international capitalists. He built his fortune on wood pulp, aviation, munitions (Bofors), vacuum cleaners and refrigerators (Servel, Inc.). Since 1939 he has lived on Hog Island (near Nassau) on a magnificent estate called Shangri-La. He is an intimate of the Duke of Windsor. Two months ago he left Peru, where he had sponsored an archeological expedition, and arrived in Mexico, where he said he intended to "engage in economic activities...