Word: albatross
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Your "At Sea, They Shot an Albatross" (TIME, March 23) is the most magnificent piece of writing of the decade. It should be placed verbatim in every schoolbook; it should be bound in every library. It should be hung on the walls of U.S.O. "huts," and recruiting centers. It makes my eyes smart with pride that I have nationality in common with Pilot Dixon. . . . My god, what...
With My Crossbow. That night an albatross landed on the raft. Aldrich killed it with the pistol and Dixon, the only one who could swim, dived overboard and retrieved it. The men ate the organs and the entrails, but put the unplucked flesh away to save. In the night it glowed with phosphorescence and Dixon threw it overboard. That was a tough thing to do. But during the night it rained again. "The drawers worked fine," Dixon said. "We all had a good drink...
...21st day a floating coconut provided slightly brackish milk and meat. By then, as far as he could tell, Dixon was "somewhere in the vicinity of Ireland." Trying to catch another albatross, he had upset the boat and lost his chart...
...Harvard Glider Club is planning to enter its Baby Albatross, "Loafer," in the Eleventh Annual Soaring Contest at Elmira, New York, next month, David Stacey '40, club president, announced yesterday. The club has recently purchased a Schweltzer Utility gilder, in addition to the "Loafer," which will be used to train new gilder enthusiasts...
Correspondents were leery of the Chicago Tribune's Alex Small, called him "a human albatross." Since the day he arrived in Toledo, Spain in 1936, every warring city to which Newsman Small has gone has been bombed a few hours later (except Brussels, bombed a month after Small got there). As he passed through Lille and Tournai last fortnight, they were bombarded. Nazi planes followed him along the roads. Said another newsman, when he arrived in Paris last week: "Get the hell out of here, Alex, or we'll be bombed." Immediately sirens began to wail an airraid...