Word: bays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Through the stretch of the Atlantic, from Sheepshead Bay to the Nantucket bearing and beyond, runs Track Charlie, at this time of the year one of the principal transatlantic shipping lanes. By routine but not rule, westbound vessels follow the northern side of Track Charlie, eastbound ships the southern. But that evening the eastbound Stockholm was holding to the northern edge. On a clear night the course holds no serious hazard. But for three days fog had covered the sea from Newfoundland's banks down to Nantucket. The view from a ship's bridge was scarcely farther than...
...Land. It all began in 1951, when a few Navy ships dropped anchor in the lovely Bay of Naples. Object: to form the American headquarters for NATO South, which in wartime would command the allied fighting forces of southern Europe but in peacetime would have virtually nothing to do (since each NATO country exercises direct command of its own forces). Soon Navy wives and children also dropped anchor in Naples, began appearing on shipboard at mealtime. NATO South's skipper, Admiral Robert Bostwick Carney, decided that the families were rocking the boat, shifted his headquarters to dry land...
...Cold Care. Bourboule businessmen promptly hired Gentleman Jockey André Bruneau. Loaded with Bourboule cash and blessed with a sharp eye for not-too-sick selling platers, Bruneau bought a four-year-old bay named Pyrame, a short-winded chronic wheezer with an unimpressive record on the track. A special stall was built half a mile from La Bourboule's best spring, outfitted with hot and cold running water plus steam pipes, and Pyrame began the cure...
...murmured soft endearments, And she talked of Dostoevsky . . . As they landed at the airport Braves in blue restrained the tribesfolk Held at bay the howling pressmen . . . Some there were who liked her front view...
Waltzes & Polkas. The original horn fanfares were used to signal the different stages of the hunt to riders in the field, e.g., stag at bay, hounds hunt a game unknown, withdrawal from the field. Under Louis XV horn players became more ceremonious, began to specialize in elaborate fanfares signaling such things as the "Salute to the Queen" and the appearance of "The Ladies' Carriage." The ladies were provided with their own little horns with which to answer the bucks in the field. By the 18th century horn buffs were experimenting with waltzes, mazurkas and polkas. In some...