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...Lightship, which had fancy premieres simultaneously in three large London theatres, they extol British courage in a salty, moving account of the bombing of the East Dudgeon lightship in the North Sea. This one also shows what Blitzkrieg has done to British film censorship. During the attack on the lightship a gnarled seaman crouching on the open deck looks up at a Heinkel raking the ship with machine-gun fire, spits out: "The dirty bastards...
...last week were racing against time. As passengers on the Queen Mary, they were assured by Commodore R. B. Irving that they had a good chance of beating the Normandie's westbound trans-atlantic record of 3 days, 23 hr., 2 min. They did, passing the Ambrose Channel Lightship 3 days, 21 hr., 48 min. after they had left Bishop Rock, off Land's End, England. Best day's run: 790 miles...
...country "The Charmed Land." In The Laurels Are Cut Down, Author Binns attempts for the first time, in telling the story of two brothers who grew up on Puget Sound at the Century's turn, to trace the rise of that disillusionment. Readers who found his Lightship a talented and dramatic performance will not be disappointed in Archie Binns's second novel, may think it a good candidate for the Pulitzer Prize...
...Gate a dense fog came in and I suggested to my companion that as long as we were out there we might as well keep on going and come in on the flood tide and breeze the next day. We sailed around all night between the San Francisco lightship and the Faralone Islands, twice during the night we passed the Bar Pilot's schooner, Lady Mine, in command of Captain Alex Swanson, who spoke to us wanting to know what in hell we were doing out there...
...more to & from the U. S. and Canada, sank one German submarine, repelled seven others, rescued the crew of the sinking H. M. S. Audacious. Converted to oil after the Armistice, she settled down in the transatlantic run, where she again made news by sinking the Nantucket Lightship last year (TIME...