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From deck chairs and other flotsam to which they clung, 18 people collected on a life raft. Four were children: Carol and Richard Shaw, whose mother and sister were drowned and whose father had vanished, and Mary and Robert Bell, whose missionary mother was rescued with them. Also dragged out of the sea was the torpedoed merchantman's skipper, 86-year-old Benjamin Bogdan of Brooklyn. Crowded on the raft, the 18 floated on the vast ellipse of the Caribbean. The sun beat down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC: The Young and Hopeful | 10/5/1942 | See Source »

...after endless day dawned without a sign of a vessel. The children sang. Men & women raised their croaking voices with them. Finally a destroyer appeared. It mistook the raft for a submarine and began shelling it, realized the error and picked up the half-dead voyagers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC: The Young and Hopeful | 10/5/1942 | See Source »

Last to go was calm, straight-mouthed Captain Elliott Buckmaster. Next to last was the captain's little brown-skinned mess boy. He lowered the boy on a line, then followed him down. The boy was hysterical when he reached the water. The captain dragged him to a raft, pushed him up before he climbed on himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Fightingest Ship | 9/28/1942 | See Source »

When, after covering 1,000 miles in 34 days, the three men staggered ashore on an unknown island, Dixon remembered to outline a plan for avoiding possible Japanese sentries, and to seek out a strong mooring post for the precious raft. Even at that moment he was thinking ahead: if the place was dangerous, or uninhabited, they would rest up, scrape together provisions - and take to the raft again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cotton King | 8/31/1942 | See Source »

...this quality that makes The Raft much more than another saga of human heroism of which there will be many before World War II ends. The special quality of this book is that it restores and documents by deed something that has long been lacking from men's books and minds - a sense of the therapeutic goodness of the unflagging will to live...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cotton King | 8/31/1942 | See Source »

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