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...because of his heart) altitudes of Colorado's Rocky Mountain brooks. Restlessly, he watched sunlight sparkle on fish hauled into nearby boats, then cracked orders by radiotelephone for his escort craft, full of ever-hovering Secret Service, to find out what bait the others were using. A neighboring cruiser shared its successful white feather jigs, and another provided wire lines for deeper trolling, but nothing worked until, on a tip messaged from a third helpful sportsman, the President ran into a sliver of luck: off Sandy Point, using a nickel-plated spoon, he hooked a single...
...truly proud ship was the heavy cruiser Indianapolis. Before World War II, she had served as an ocean-going White House for Franklin Roosevelt. She had flown the four-star flag of Admiral Raymond A. Spruance and had fought in many a Pacific battle. As July 1945 drew to a close, Indy had just steamed 2,091 miles from the Farallons to Diamond Head at a record-breaking, rivet-loosening 28 knots. Reason for the haste: she was on her way to the Marianas with an unprecedented cargo-the components of the atom bomb for Hiroshima...
...week's end, showed that it was more than willing to back up its blunt diplomatic talk with military beef. To the Seventh Fleet of Vice Admiral Wallace ("Beak") Beakley steamed the carrier Essex and four destroyers from the Middle East, the big carrier Midway and the heavy cruiser Los Angeles from the West Coast. U.S. fighters rolled onto the ready line on Formosa, and Tactical Air Force sent out from the states a reinforcing squadron along with air cargo support planes from the Military Transport Service-all meaningful public warning that the U.S. means business...
Like an eager duck bobbing after great white swans, a venerable, 33-ft. cabin cruiser named Foto last week followed the four sleek 12-meter yachts sailing over the course near Newport, R.I. Skittering across the yachts' bows, hovering a few yards off their lee rails, Foto followed every tack and tactic of the observation trials that will help select the boat to defend the America's Cup against the British in September...
...blue-jacketed racing official waved the intruding cruiser off the course, no skipper turned to bellow. Everyone knew that Foto was commanded by Morris ("Rosy") Rosenfeld of City Island, N.Y., the world's No. 1 marine photographer.* After more than 60 years of shooting boats, Rosy knew just how close to get to the race without bothering the skippers. He alone had full freedom of the course, while his landlubber rivals in other boats scrambled for inferior sites...