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...themselves. Police hid him in a back room. Balked, the mob turned on plump, well-fed Donato Caretta, deposed boss of the infamous Regina Coeli jail and a prosecution witness. Men & women spat at him, screeched at him, kicked him, slugged him. They threw him in the Tiber. Boatmen bashed in his head with heavy oars, towed his lifeless body to the jail. Then the people strung him head down and near-naked from his prison's bars. The Government decided to postpone Caruso's trial...
...British Admiralty announced that 3,700 volunteers had answered its call for yachtsmen and small-boat handlers. The boatmen, many of them veterans of the incredible flotilla that saved the B.E.F. at Dunkirk, are manning small craft in the harbors. Like other British civilians, they are waiting; but they will not have to wait quite so long...
...Admiralty issued an appeal to amateur yachtsmen and other civilian boatmen (many of whom helped to save the shattered B.E.F. at Dunkirk in 1940) to serve the Royal Navy "for short periods of duty during the next six months...
...coral formations studded with is lets, enclosing calm lagoons where volcanic cones may once have jutted (see map, p. 26). Twenty years ago, when the Japs settled down to prepare for World War II, the islands had a population of 10,000 Kanakas, lazygoing, brown-skinned Micronesian fishermen and boatmen...
Suddenly down the steep bank rushed one of the boatmen, shouting and waving a dragon's red-and-gold head and twisted tail. Drums and gongs beat madly, rockets hissed, the galleries roared-and the race was on. Twice across the river the rowers strained. In other times, the crews decided the outcome by fighting. Now, from a judges' junk, the winners received their prizes: bright red sashes...