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Flying Officer Brant Howell of Manitoba turned his Sunderland from a probable "kill" to attack a surfaced sub with his guns. The sub's deck gun fired back, When the U-boat crash-dived, Howell saw the abandoned Nazi gun crew floundering in the sea. They soon had their submarine for company. Reported Howell: "Four depth charges exploded within a few feet of the stern and the last we saw of the U-boat was six feet of the afterpart sticking out almost vertically from the water...
...white hope of a new deal, the Tories took him into the Government and then swallowed him up. Now Sir Stafford was useful to them. Last week, as Minister of Aircraft Production, he took the slings and arrows for the Government's seizure of inefficient Short Brothers, Ltd. (Sunderland flying boats, Stirling bombers...
...Columnist Westbrook Pegler for his columns on scandals in U.S. organized labor; Chicago Times Cartoonist Jacob Burck for his cartoon "If I Should Die Before I Wake," depicting a child praying in a bomb-shattered room; 53-year-old former College Professor Leonard Bacon, for his book of verse Sunderland Capture; Biographer Ola Elizabeth Winslow for her Jonathan Edwards; the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, for its campaign against smoke nuisance in St. Louis. To the New York Times went a special citation for "the public educational value of its foreign-news reports...
...Eden drove along the streets of ancient Athens where British and Greek flags fluttered in the sun. The Government wined and dined the British Foreign Secretary, showed him the classic sights, finally led him up the battered Acropolis whence he surveyed the glinting blue Aegean. Before his big Short Sunderland flying boat took off for British Egyptian headquarters, he received from Athens' Military Governor Kostas Kotzias a gift of two handsome pistols from the 1821-29 Greek War of Independence, a lustrous Byzantine icon, an album of photographs of Greece, and rich Dodecanese Island embroideries for Mrs. Eden...
...Where Are the British?" asked the citizens of Greece on the war's fifth day, when there were still no signs of pledges fulfilled. Athens was treated late that day to the sight of a huge R. A. F. Sunderland flying boat which had previously been interned, and crowds cheered at the sight...