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...that was changed last week. The Robin Moor sinking, and the defiant statement with which Nazi officials followed it up, made it clear that Axis reprisals were coming. So Franklin Roosevelt took the step...
...clock in the morning, a grey dawn on a grey sea, when the Robin Moor first saw the signal lights blinking. They signaled: "Send over a boat." The captain came up on the bridge in his pajamas. A boat was lowered and four seamen at the oars rowed the chief officer through the lifting dawn toward the long, low shape awash in the water, a mile and a half away...
...Robin Moor's mate clambered aboard, met her captain waiting on the deck. Said the German, "Where are your papers?" The mate said: "You didn't ask me to bring them." Then the two officers disappeared down the hatch. Ten minutes later the mate was back. Said he: "They're going to let us have...
...submarine's commander gave the Robin Moor half an hour to abandon ship. The passengers were roused. Three more boats were lowered. As the sun rose, after the boats were in the water, the submarine fired a torpedo into the Robin Moor amidships, shelled her for 23 minutes. She went wearily down by the stern...
...Stakes, Whirlaway is the fifth horse in the history of U.S. turf to win America's three major races for three-year-olds. Others: Sir Barton, Gallant Fox, Omaha, War Admiral. > Tennist Fred Perry, onetime British Davis Cupper now teaching tennis in the U.S.: an invitation Professional Round Robin Tennis championship (10% of receipts for British War Relief); defeating creaking, 48-year-old Bill Tilden (4-6, 0-6, 6-1, 6-3, 6-2), up-&-coming Dick Skeen of Hollywood (6-1, 3-6, 6-0, 6-3) and jaded Don Budge...