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Still the Houston was far from finished. When an erratic Japanese spotlight lit up the transports near the beach, the cruiser poured in enough shells to force four of them aground. One of her 8-inch salvos smashed fairly into a large warship, which wavered and turned over on its side, sinking rapidly...
...Admiral Nimitz did, in spite of being court-martialed and reprimanded for running a destroyer aground in the Philippines almost 40 years...
...group commander, Colonel William K. Skaer, talked matter-of-factly for a minute about the mission, then added: "We have no official word of the Japanese surrender proposal, but tonight's mission has been canceled." Thereafter, General Carl Spaatz decided, his Superforts and long-range fighters should stay aground-unless the Japanese dillydallied too long over surrender terms...
...race became a roller-coaster scramble for the shelter of the Michigan shore. One yacht made it the hard way, running aground and breaking up. Another snapped her mainmast. Distress flares shot up. When noses were counted at dawn, 34 badly battered boats had made it back to Port Huron and points north. The other four had doggedly refused to give...
...Druten, with two smash hits (The Voice of the Turtle, I Remember Mama}. Sitting prettier were Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, with two smash musicals (Oklahoma!, Carousel)-and the producers' haul from Mama. On a seesaw were Broadway's two gaudiest impresarios: Mike Todd aground, his pockets heavy from Up in Central Park] Billy Rose aloft, his pockets light from The Seven Lively Arts. Still spry, Life With Father beat the record of Abie's Irish Rose (2,327 performances), had only Tobacco Road (3,182 performances) to overtake in the Methuselah Sweepstakes...