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...northern end of the island, is the key to the western half of the Indian Ocean. Diego-Suarez snuggles in a broad, lighthouse-studded bay, and it affords the navy of the nation which controls it a fully equipped submarine station, a 26,000-ton capacity drydock (nearest equivalent: Southampton, England), radio stations, a largely equable climate, a military hospital, a good water supply, a big power plant and meteorological station...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: AFRICA: Anticipation at Madagascar | 5/11/1942 | See Source »

Less than 36 hours later torpedoes caught the 6,768-ton British tanker Coimbra some 60 miles from the Norness attack scene, a scant 20 miles from Southampton, L.I., only 100 miles east of New York City, and left it sinking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC: What is a Menace? | 1/26/1942 | See Source »

Henry Huddleston Rogers III, bespectacled Standard Oil heir who enraged the folk of Bethel, Conn, by grazing sheep on his lawn last June, moved into a new estate at Southampton, L.I., shortly trotted to police with a complaint of grand larceny. Standing on the $100,000 estate when he bought it, he said, was a holly tree. Now it was gone. Cried Rogers: "I liked that tree. My wife liked that tree." The chief of police went on a vacation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Beauty, Health, Style | 11/24/1941 | See Source »

Died. James Parrish Lee, 71, named halfback on Walter Camp's first All-America team; of a heart attack while playing tennis; at Southampton, L.I. He made an 85-yard run in 1890 to score a touchdown that gave Harvard its first football victory over Yale in nine years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 22, 1941 | 9/22/1941 | See Source »

...decided in Brit ain to send out new tanks and guns, and that the matter was so urgent that the supplies should not go around Africa but should risk the Mediterranean. The last time the British tried that, the aircraft carrier Illustrious was knocked out and the light cruiser Southampton sunk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: MEDITERRANEAN THEATER: Courage and the Weather | 5/19/1941 | See Source »

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