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Suddenly one of the cruisers shuddered. About 200 yards astern of her a huge plume of foam scarred the blue of the Mediterranean and the blue of the southern sky. Other plumes from the same salvo walked out across the water. Every one a miss...
...moment that followed, Admiral Le Luc wiped tears from his cheeks. There was a sound of a pen scratching, a sentence spoken in French: "Monsieur le General, la plume," the scratch of a second signature. It was 6:50 p.m.. German summer time...
Entitled "U-Boat", the story was signed "HRH," which is believed to be a nom de plume for Rumpot Du Beele '40, Ibis on the Mt. Auburn Street almanac. Robeson Bailey '29, English instructor who graded the paper, is an ex-president of the Advocate...
Rollicking verses like the foregoing (Chapel Wooing) have appeared in Chicago newspaper columns, over the nom de plume "Friar Tuck," for 20 years. Lank, bushy-browed Friar Tuck is a copyreader, feature-writer and religion editor for the Sunday Herald and Examiner. He is also, under his real name of Rev. Irwin St. John Tucker, an Episcopal minister, rector for eleven years of Chicago's St. Stephen's, nicknamed "The Little Church at the End of the Road." Last week, upon the publication of Friar Tuck's latest thin volume of verse, Bishop George Craig Stewart named...
...wants to make friends with the Italian Dictator with whom he exchanges friendly personal letters (TIME, Aug. 9), were continuing to work at somewhat ludicrous cross purposes-except that the big job of starting Anglo-French naval cooperation had been accomplished, looms this week as a great white plume in the helmet of Democracy...