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Early on the morning of the sixth day, Q. E. sighted Nantucket Light. At this point, with a premature burst of pride, the Admiralty announced in London that the Elizabeth had reached a safe berth "across the Atlantic." This was the first intimation to most of the world that Q...
S S S-three triplets of dots-is a new signal, invented and used by the Allies since the beginning of World War II. It serves a double purpose: warns that the sending vessel may soon be in distress, calls up Allied war vessels for a possible kill. Landlubbers'...
Last week Professor Morison & party were safe in Manhattan after a five-month, 10,000-mile cruise that vindicated the Admiral all the way, and delivered a hard blow at the debunkers' view of history. And at each point they found that Columbus' account rang true. Columbus had...
A Child Is Born (Warner Bros.) records with varying degrees of self-conscious pathos and humor the birth of seven infants. In this somewhat redundant remake of the tear-jerking stage play, Life Begins, first screened in 1932, grave, talented, strikingly lovely Geraldine Fitzgerald plays the mother who dies (from...
About 3 a.m. a tug sighted them, and they were rescued.