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...Narvik, for example, at daybreak the battle cruiser Renown sighted the German battleship Scharnhorst escorted by the 10,000-ton cruiser Admiral Hipper. "The sea was running very high," First Lord of the Admiralty Churchill later explained. "Gales were blowing furiously, but our battle cruiser opened fire at 18,000 yards and after three minutes the enemy replied. The enemy almost immediately turned away and after nine minutes the Renown observed hits forward of the superstructure of the German...
...generally accorded the amused attention elicited by a fish out of water, and the proverbial shoemaker and his last are recalled. Mr. Van Doren at no time runs the danger of such unflattering parallels, for as the readers of "The Transients" can well testify, he has earned renown as a novelist commensurate with that which he has gained as a critic and poet. And he has earned it, as he does now, by writing novels which can stand by themselves as mature and expert productions. If one discerns the poet in this novelist, it is because he brings...
Tuesday, March 26, will find President Conant still in Los Angeles at an all-day meeting of the Harvard Clubs of the region, where he will address a luncheon audience, including Governor Culbert Olson and Mayor Fletcher Bowron, who recently won renown for his clean-up of the city. He will speak on the need of democracy for unusual...
Adding 39,960 sq. mi. to Michigan was only an incident in Mr. Osborn's career. He has intermittently owned, edited and sold three small-town newspapers. A prospector and geologist of renown, he discovered the rich Moose Mountain iron range in Canada, the Kiruna and Luossavara deposits in Lapland, others in Africa, the Orient, Latin America. From sales of iron ore and timber lands, he has given nearly all of his millions away (to relatives, friends, deserving strangers, schools, churches, etc.). Says he: "It just happened that I was a moneymaker. . . . Why shouldn't I give...
...battleships coming up), the present ratio of German to British capital ships is two to 13 (since the torpedoing of Royal Ock and a Queen Elizabeth). These odds are not so hopeless for Germany as they sound; only three of the British ships, the battle cruisers Hood, Repulse and Renown, can match the 30 knots of Germany's battle cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau. The new German battleships will be equally fast, forming a homogeneous line of speedsters which will outweigh the British Fleet's fast division 5-to-3 until Britain can finish five new dreadnaughts...