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...Panay incident, Jim Marshall was hit in the shoulder, leaped onto a Standard Oil tanker which nosed alongside the gunboat, got ashore with the aid of a U. S. seaman and was taken to Wuhu by friendly Japanese. Less fortunately, Sandro Sandri of the Turin Stampa died next day of a horribly painful stomach wound. Other foreign correspondent to die during the hostilities was Pembroke Stephens, crackman from the London Telegraph. He was machine-gunned while watching the siege of Shanghai from a water tower in the French Concession. Two New York Timesmen, Hallett Abend and Anthony James Billingham, were...
...Meanwhile, in the muddy, choppy Yangtze, passengers and crew of the U. S. vessels kept afloat as best they could until ships of the British flotilla came to the rescue. Of 72 persons believed to have been aboard the Panay, 63 had been rescued at latest reports, an American seaman and an Italian journalist had died, a total of 96 and possibly more were counted missing from the Panay and the Standard Oil boats...
...Metropolitan feature writers got busy when the Midtown Galleries displayed eleven paintings by the proprietor of a beauty parlor on Union Square. Saturnine, mop-headed Paul Mommer, 38, spent his younger days in Luxembourg and in a British prison camp during the War. Afterward he knocked around as a seaman, became a hospital orderly in Manhattan, then a barber. His moody paintings of recollected landscapes, done in the back room of his shop at night, began to impress art critics three years ago, have grown more impressive. Sympathetic customers at the Mommer beauty parlor include Mrs. Norman Thomas...
...tough Joseph Curran, president of C.I.O.'s new National Maritime Union. Asked why the meeting had broken up, he snapped: "Hell, you can't expect men to come out of a dead faint and go right on negotiating." George Harrison, added the hardboiled seaman, was "still quivering...
Leverett came right back and proceeded to march 70 yards down to the Deacon two-yard stripe. The march was featured by right end Bob Seaman's spectacular catch of Rick Rabenold's aerial on the five-yard line. Here, however, the Deacons dug in, and the Rabbit thrust ended...