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Victory & Defeat. That policy brought one disaster when the Prince of Wales and Repulse sought a surface battle and ran instead into crushing Japanese air power. It brought a rueful success when the unarmored merchant cruiser Jervis Bay tackled a heavy raider force and went down with her guns blazing...
During the Versailles Peace Conference days-so the anecdote goes-he was credited with the saving of the life of Clemenceau when Cottin fired at him twice. Starling and the late Dick Jervis (then head of the White House detail) were riding in an open car behind Clemenceau's...
Jervis B. McMechan '42, Norman R. Maller '43, Arthur G. Maling '44, Sumner N. Marder '43, Martin R. Marks '42, Robert E. Massey '42, Alexander D. Mebane '43, Richard K. Morrill '42, William H. Merz '42, Merton H. Miller '44.
Last week Dublin dockworkers unloading the ship Slieve Bawn from Liverpool heard tappings and groans coming from the inside of a large packing case. Investigating, they uncrated a distinguished-looking, middle-aged man packed in a stack of paintings. Hysterical from being stood upside down for seven hours, the man...
>When the Jervis Bay, an unarmored merchant cruiser, went down after a heroic and hopeless engagement with a big German surface raider (TIME, Nov. 25), no picture was available in the U.S. of gallant Captain Edward Stephen Fogarty Fegan, who, with one arm shot away, stayed on the sinking wreck...