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According to unofficial reports reaching the State Department this week, the 4,999-ton Robin Moor, bound from New York for Cape Town with eight passengers and a crew of 35, was "torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine" in the South Atlantic May 21. A Brazilian ship rescued eleven survivors adrift 18 days in a lifeboat. If the reports were correct, this was the first U.S. ship torpedoed in World...
...Robin Hood in the Jungle. Among those who rebelled was Segundo David Peralta, a bookbinder from Tucuman, who took to the jungle with a band that soon grew to 30 or 40 members. Objects of his wrath were the brokers and big companies, who not only dictated sales prices but sometimes charged as much as 30% interest on loans. Sweeping out of the jungle in organized forays, Mate Cosido* and his well-armed men have staged at least seven big holdups, netting over 90,000 pesos ($21,420). He distributes the loot among the neediest farmers and pickers, thereby assuring...
...Jean Drake, SmithJoseph Smith Jeanne Hoffman, Harrisburg, Penn.Thomas Stanton Virginia Vail, GarlandDonald Talmage Priscilla Parker, NewtonRichard Thayer Doris Scott, Katherine GibbsRobert Wilcox Betty McArthur, RadcliffeMOWER HALLPaul B. Akin Katherine Murphy, WellesleySheldon Berman Shirley Gordon, WellesleyL. Roydon Briggs, II Mary-Elizabeth Clark, WellestonWilliam B. Frymark Suzanne Foster, WellesleyThomas P. Mulkeen Robin Dennis, WellesleyJohn Pickering, Jr. Sarah Coughlan, VassarSTOUGHTON HALLRichard A. Beyer Pat Lord, WellesleyRobert G. Knight Katherine Magee, SmithHenry H. Meyer, Jr. Evelyn Bird, WinsorRoland E. Mueser Barbara Fisher, RadcliffeAnton O. Myrer Kay Leaonard, WellesleyCharles Purinton Joan Stowe, BostonWinsor Soule, II Lydia Gifford, WinsorWalter C. Wilson, Jr. Marjorie Ann Proctor...
...ties were the result of the final round of the round robin series over last week-end. Yale, which apparently was headed for the Northern Division championship with four victories and no defeats ran into unexpected opposition from a surprisingly strong Dartmouth team, and lost 7 to 3. Harvard, which lost its match to Yale 9 to 0, but defeated Dartmouth for the Green's only reverse, remained in the picture as a division possibility for the title...
...been called back into service. In March of 1939 only 17 U.S. ships sailed to Africa; now there are 51. Ships going to the Far East have increased in number from twelve to 82, to India from twelve to 25 (see chart). Sailing totals have increased even more. Examples: Robin Line and American South African have upped sailings to Africa from 24 to 100 a year; American Export has 54 sailings to India against nine; American President Lines has increased round-the-world sailings from...