Word: compassions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fitted out a 23-ft. Bermuda-rigged sloop, Felicity Ann, with a 5-h.p. diesel engine, a radio receiving set, pressure kerosene stove, sextant, compass and chronometer. In May she set sail from Plymouth Harbor. Plagued by storms, she was forced to land in Brittany, Spain, Gibraltar, Casablanca. From Casablanca, she headed for the Canary Islands, was overdue 18 days and given up for lost before she finally made Las Palmas in the Canaries. Last week, 65 days later-and eight months after she started-Ann dropped anchor at Portsmouth, Dominica...
...reduced the power-setting so that we were flying at 120 m.p.h. He asked, why so slow, and pushed at the throttles. I told him to be more economical on the gas. I kicked the rudder and started into a turn, but he noticed. He was wearing a wrist compass. He said that if I went back to the Philippines he would kill me. He held that gun cocked every minute, with his finger on the trigger...
...Wyck Brooks brought to a close, in The Confident Years, the most comprehensive literary history of the U.S., and Edmund Wilson, in The Shores of Light, produced the most readable book of literary criticism. A model of balanced critical estimate in small compass was English Novelist Angus Wilson's Zola...
...Compass Quits...
...Manhattan's pinko Daily Compass finally folded. Deep in debt, the three-year-old tabloid, lineal descendant of the pinko PM, reached a peak circulation of 54,000 after the start of the Korean war, then slumped to 30,000. The Compass, originally backed by International Harvester heiress Mrs. Emmons Elaine, 86 (TIME. May 16, 1950), was in the red more often than the black. This week the paper's mortgagors and creditors closed in and sold the Compass' fixtures and machinery at auction. Said Editor Ted Thackrey: "We ran out of money. We're through...