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...prayer alongside the transport plane that had brought them from torn Europe. In New York harbor a police launch sped to investigate a rumor that had swept through the Wall Street crowds: a German submarine had surfaced, flying a white flag. What the harbor police found: a Navy vessel, with the sailors' Monday wash...
...ships had paid a price. Five light units were lost, one other damaged. ("Light unit" presumably meant a destroyer or smaller vessel.) Earlier in the week two light units had been sent down by Kamikaze attack. All told, 24 U.S. vessels have been sunk since the start of the campaign seven weeks...
...Dorothy the light opera turned to tragedy in December 1920, when Caruso sang L'Elisir d'Amore at the Brooklyn Academy and a blood vessel burst in his throat. On Christmas eve he sang La Juive at the Metropolitan, on Christmas day he was ill with acute pleurisy. By spring he seemed to recover, and Dorothy took him home to Naples, where he died...
There last week, after eight days of unconsciousness, the young gunner revived. His only injuries: a bruised thigh, a lacerated ear, a ruptured blood vessel in his stomach. What had he done when he finally realized that he could not bail out? What could he do? He had unsnapped his parachute, sat down in his gunner's seat, lighted a cigaret-and waited...
...about the four Chaplains who went down with a torpedoed troopship not so long ago. They had worked feverishly toward the successful evacuation of the vessel. They had given their life jackets to four soldiers who were without them. They were, all together, trapped with no chance of escape. They were last seen standing on the deck in prayer. They died side by side...