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Died. Hubert Scott-Paine, 62, British-born aircraft pioneer and boat designer, who, after 25 years of experimenting, developed the U.S. Navy's vaunted PT (patrol torpedo) boat; after long illness; at his home in Greenwich, Conn...
...Isobel's fondness for gin at last drove them apart in 1937, Lady Mary and her daughter went back to London, bought a large house in Ealing, and opened a boardinghouse for genteel elderly ladies and gentlemen. Donald went on to join the navy, served as a torpedo-boat commander. But he ended up as usual, sentenced to nine months' imprisonment for misappropriation of naval vehicles-for smuggling...
...House of Representatives in the West African city of Lagos (pop. 250,000), British Colonial Secretary Oliver Lyttelton rapped for order one day last week at a conference of Nigeria's political leaders. "This is one of Churchill's cigars," said the Colonial Secretary, depositing a miniature torpedo in the center of the conference table. "I propose not to smoke it unless we get into difficulties, but if you see me light it you will know that a crisis has been reached...
...German intelligence report: "The genuineness of the captured documents is above suspicion." Hitler himself believed it for nearly two weeks after the invasion of Sicily began, actually sent Marshal Rommel to Greece, where he expected the real attack to come. From Sicily to Greece had gone so many torpedo boato that the German patrols were ineffective. All the way across Europe went the ist Panzer Division to meet the expected invasion of Greece. In Sicily itself, Axis forces were shifted from the south, where the attack came, to the north...
...leak ("Hell" said an old Pentagon hand, "that was no leak, it was a fire hose"). The inside dope from the Parks office, as splashed out in the Pentagon pressroom: the atomic submarine Nautilus is really unsuited for combat; it is too big, too expensive, too noisy; its torpedo tubes were added as an afterthought; its sonar equipment will not work at high speed; it has no safety features. All the criticisms were either false or distorted, and some of them were ridiculous as well...