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...submarine was only 650 feet offshore; it was "disgustingly light." The torpedoes were fired, the submarine swung about and a torpedo fired from the stern tubes. After three minutes there was a loud explosion, followed by thundering columns of water and then by columns of fire. The harbor sprang into life. The destroyers in the anchorage were lit up. Cars sped along the highway. Directly opposite the submarine, a car stopped, turned around, and raced back toward town. Thinking the driver had seen him, Prien withdrew at full speed...
Both Welles and former Secretary of State Cordell Hull sprang to Duggan's defense, praised his patriotism. So did dozens of other U.S. citizens. The Columbia Broadcasting System's Edward R. Murrow (who is also chairman of the board of trustees of the Institute of International Education) spoke bitterly over the air after Duggan's death: "A dead man's character is being destroyed . . . Some of the headlines might as well have read, 'Spy Takes Life...
...secret. For several months, Pan American Airways' canny President Juan Terry Trippe had been dickering with American Airlines' Chairman C. R. Smith. But not till last week did any hint of the dickering leak out. This week, as Wall Street began to buzz with rumors, Juan Trippe sprang the news. American had agreed to sell Pan Am its transatlantic subsidiary, American Overseas Airlines...
...boys* had started out by stealing a .30-30 rifle from an unlocked car. Then they broke into a truck, stole cigarettes. Thus equipped, they headed out of town, hid in a ditch, and waited. Soon a car came along. One of the boys, masked with a handkerchief, sprang up, fired a warning shot. The car did not halt. There was another shot, a scream from the car, a slithering to a stop. Farmer James Millar Watson, 62, had been mortally wounded. A week later, when one of the boys confessed, police took them to jail...
...coup, and General Velez ordered a final meeting at headquarters for the night of Sept. 23. That afternoon Reyes got a tipoff, frantically called an emergency meeting at home to warn his associates. But there was a double double-cross and the police sprang the trap then & there. The name of John Griffiths, onetime U.S. embassy worker, was tossed in to give the conspiracy some foreign color. He had once been friendly with Reyes...