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August 28, 1943

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a reporter at large

EIGHTY-THREE DAYS--II

Mark Murphy

REPORTER AT LARGE about the experiences of Basil Cominick Izzi who, with two Dutch sailors survived eighty-three days of drifting in the Atlantic. Izzi was…