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Orphans of the Storm Coast Guard headquarters in Boston braced for battle as the tanker Fort Mercer, 29 miles off Cape Cod's Pollock Rip lightship, sent out an S O S. The worst nor'easter of the winter was burying New England in gale-blown snow and raising pure white hell offshore. Blinding snow, 50-ft. waves, and winds up to 90 miles an hour smashed the distressed tanker as the Coast Guard cutter Yakutat and the Navy cargo ship Short Splice hunted her. Just after noon, she broke...
Other conversation at the long table in the Officers Club stopped short and the public relations officer at the end of the table looked off to the side in confused embarrassment. The occasion was an inspection tour of Otis Air Base on Cape Cod for editors of college papers. All morning the Air Force officers involved had been talking feverishly in an effort to convince the editors that the Corps was composed entirely of clean-cut red-blooded types who sent their meagre earnings home to Mother. The captain's story would obviously create an Incorrect Impression, and the publicity...
Married. Phoebe Atwood Taylor, 42, writer of mystery chillers with a Cape Cod setting (Deadly Sunshade); and Dr. Grantley Walder Taylor, 54, Boston physician; she for the first, he for the second time; in Providence...
...centuries British and Norwegian diplomats have politely quarreled over British fishing boats which sailed north to scoop cod out of the fish-rich" "underwater terraces" off Norway. Early...
...veto message on this bill. But when the people who were working on this message called the Governor's Office to check up on a small point, they were told that the Governor had signed the bill the day before. They found that Dever had gone to Cape Cod for a vacation and that he could not be reached. As yet there has been no official announcement either...