Word: anchors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That night, Wakefield boarded a 43-ft. schooner for an overnight fishing trip. After dinner his daughter Pamela clambered into the dinghy and accidentally cast herself adrift without oars. Wakefield hauled up anchor and sailed after the girl but only went hard aground. The dinghy drifted on into a marsh while Wakefield frantically waved red flares for help and SOS'd till the batteries were dead. Nobody came. Pamela stumbled through the marsh to the home of a vacationing Coast Guardsman and next morning returned with him to the stranded yacht...
...will have to be small today in its first appearance in the Stadium--only about 50 men are scheduled to be on hand. But for the rest of the season, it should be at its full strength. Today, between the halves, several figures are planned, including one of an anchor which transforms itself into an airplane...
Again & again there are glimpses of the sureness of those hands, and insight into a deeply practical mind. Dixon might have been specially trained for this job. He made an all-important sea anchor out of a life jacket, paddles out of his own shoes. He treated Gene's finger expertly when a shark ripped it from end to end. A superstitious man and an "ardent" spiritualist, Dixon was ready to participate in Gene's daily prayers "because it worked a couple of times . . . and later because it gave us something regular to do." When Tony...
...world still remembered how the charter was born in the fog-wreathed North Atlantic, where H.M.S. Prince of Wales and the trim, grey, bow-flared U.S.S. Augusta tossed at anchor, where the President of the U.S. and the Prime Minister of Great Britain conferred, sang at ship services, conferred again...
...still proud, resolute, massively beautiful. As she lolled at anchor in the Willamette River in downtown Portland last week the sunbeams wriggled through her superstructure, flicked over the letters OREGON. Once she was the bravest battleship in the U.S. Fleet, the heroine and toast of the whole U.S. Now Washington had consigned her to the junk heap, where her 10,300 tons of steel, copper and brass could be turned into fighting metals for World...