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...Lancetilla came in first in its second division and ahead of all but four of the first-division boats, winning the coveted Blue Water Bowl with a corrected time of 72 hr. 27 min. 28 sec. Said one of Cameron's exultant colleagues: "Does Chichester need a bosun on his next voyage...
...battle scenes that follow have an eerie air of realism. Supporting the landing at Guadalcanal, the ship undergoes her first attack by Japanese aircraft. Sirens, bugles, bosun's pipes and klaxons sound while a single blinker flashes in the darkness. The voices of fighter pilots mingle with the staccato rat-a-tat of machine-gun bullets: "I see about 40 bandits . . . Red, where are you? Dusty, Dusty . . . Dusty's gone in." Then the big, 16-in. guns belch out billows of multicolored smoke...
...task-group skipper. When the time came for the guests to shift from the supercarrier Forrestal to the missile cruiser Springfield, a high line was rigged, and the vessels slowed to 15 knots. "Which seat will you take?" asked Durgin, as their turn came on the double bosun's chair. "The front," replied Oldendorf, and off they went, back to back. Halfway across, a pelican hook popped, and Durgin nosedived into the drink, while Oldendorf plopped in "backside first you might say." Hauled aboard the car rier, the sopping brass was restored with a hooker of medicinal brandy...
...More River (by Beverly Cross) gets vigorously if rather reminiscently under way: a crummy rust-bucket of a freighter, a dead captain, a viciously tyrannizing mate, a respected bosun, a resentful crew. When it appears that the mate has thrown boiling water into the deck boy's face and blinded him, the crew is so boiling itself that, but for the bosun's insistence on a proper trial, it would string the mate up. The trial involves sensational charges and the mate's defense gets into the deeper waters of character. At the same time the play...
...native city as master of the Mediterranean. Doria ships also helped Emperor Charles V in his struggles to win Italy. Charles rewarded him with a huge mastiff - and then a princedom "for the dog to run in." The admiral kept his palace staff hopping to the tune of bosun's pipes, once exercised his princely humor by order ing all his silver flung into the sea at a banquet's end. Afterwards Andrea Doria hauled his silver up again, in nets previously spread for the purpose...