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Wolf Sighted. About 700 miles northeast of Montevideo, H. M. S. merchant cruiser Carnarvon Castle (20,122-ton motorship, former star of the Capetown run ) sighted a suspicious vessel, apparently a merchantman, but long, lean and low. The Britisher signaled "Stop!"' The stranger, speeding ahead, replied with a salvo of shells which neatly bracketed the Carnarvon Castle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: Wolf War | 12/16/1940 | See Source »

...torpedo boats based at Syracuse. Heavy darkness and calm sea made it perfect. Fanning out ahead of the main British forces, H.M.S. Ajax flirted with the shrouded Sicilian coast to draw the Italians out. This was the light cruiser which had run the Admiral Graf Spee to cover in Montevideo last winter. Tall, square-jawed Captain E. B. D. McCarthy was itching for a chance to test the motto of his new command: Nec quisquam nisi Ajax (colloquially: You can't do nothing till Ajax comes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Whose Mediterranean? | 10/28/1940 | See Source »

Nazis in Uruguay felt so cocky last week that they threatened to bring a libel suit against Dr. Hugo Fernandez Artucio, professor of philosophy at the University of the Republic in Montevideo. It was Dr. Fernandez Artucio's book, Nazis in Uruguay, that touched off a Congressional investigation into fifth-column activities early last summer, caused a "good-will"' visit of two U. S. cruisers to Montevideo, got twelve Nazi leaders jugged on charges of plotting to turn the country into a German agricultural colony (TIME, July1). After the excitement died down the charges were quietly dropped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: URUGUAY: Funny Plot | 10/7/1940 | See Source »

...country, in Mexico, and in Argentina, Urena has hold the post of general superintendent of education in the Dominican Republic and that of director-general of public education in the state of Puebla in Mexico. He was also the Dominican delegate to the University conference at Montevideo...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PEDRO URENA WILL LECTURE | 10/4/1940 | See Source »

...everywhere. The tour was no picnic for the players, as most of their spare time was spent rehearsing. Stokowski, who took no salary for the tour, complained that enthusiastic South Americans had mobbed him for souvenirs-coat buttons, handkerchiefs, gloves. Only time he lost the Stokowski temper was in Montevideo, where the program carried a biography stating the old libel that his real name was Stokes.* The concert was delayed for half an hour while the offending programs were gathered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Return in Triumph | 9/30/1940 | See Source »

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