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...submarine's black foredeck another knot of men stood. They were pale and bearded. They showed no emotion, only a smile here & there as friends on the dock tossed out coarse, friendly greetings. The submarine's skipper, Lieut. Commander Henry C. Bruton, stood on the bridge, giving quiet orders...
...Skipper Bruton made a course for the nearby Officers' Club, ordered a beer. Then, like every returned skipper, he told his yarns. There were casual yarns, such as the one about how he had been playing bridge when an alarm came, so put down his hand warning no one to touch it, went to the periscope, sank a Jap, came back, made a grand slam. But there were also serious yarns about his successes. Eleven ships, he said, was a little optimistic: it included two he was not certain about and two fishing sampans. He had chased a loaded...
Casually, in passing, Skipper Bruton remarked that he had put two torpedoes into a Japanese carrier. Casually the Navy passed the remark. Those two torpedoes, which at the least forced a repair period of nearly two months, had made a great difference at a time when the balance of available carrier power leaned heavily in Japan's favor...
...evening the Overseers and the ladies of the party will be given a dinner at the Raleigh Tavern by Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr. On Sunday they will attend morning services at Bruton Parish Church, after which they will entertain their hosts at luncheon at the Williamsburg...
...last February visited a Bingo hot spot, Rochester, N. Y., where he once lived after amassing a modest fortune as a picture-frame salesman. For Progress, organ of his Federation, the Little Giant wrote: "This is Rochester under the benign administration of Bishop Kearney, and Rev. Father Charles J. Bruton, who is quoted as boasting that he had cleaned up $65.000 as the share of St. Margaret Mary Catholic Church from Bingo. Can we be surprised that suggestions have been received at this office from Rochester that the new Supreme Pontiff shall be called Pope Bingo...