Word: compassions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...husband, Ted Thackrey, onetime Post editor and now editor and publisher of the Redlined New York Compass, tried last week to get into the Post's act. The Compass picked up an attack on Winchell, recently run in a Manhattan monthly tabloid called Exposé, and billed it as "The Original Expose" on Winchell...
Comte leveled out on a compass course for Bloemfontein and nosed out of the cloud. He was flying in the open, but all around him were high fog and more clouds. Comte headed into the fog, flew through steady downdrafts until he broke out again at 6,000 ft., 70 miles from where he had started his high, wild ride. For an hour and a half he tried to get around the rain fronts that hemmed him in, but he was finally forced down at Vredefort, 150 miles from his destination...
...their crew set out on a leisurely sea trip back to St. Thomas. They headed south via the sheltered passages inside the Atlantic coastline. One morning last week, the ship chugged down Bogue Sound into the rough Atlantic, just off the North Carolina shore. The navigator set a compass course southeastward towards St. Thomas...
...then voted down a resolution asking Civil Defense officials to take back the request for oaths. If a newspaper's employees didn't sign, it might not be able to publish if the city were attacked. At week's end, neither the pink-eyed Compass nor the Communist Worker had received forms from the Civilian Defense. "A clerical error," said Civil Defense...
...reason the Navy is interested is the baffling problem that airplane navigators encounter near the North Pole. The magnetic compass isn't much good because of the nearness of the shifting magnetic pole. In broad daylight the navigators can steer by the sun, at night by the stars. But during the long polar twilight they can see neither sun nor stars...