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While Miss Dennis telephoned the police, Walsh and Dennis left the house and chased the man. Patrolmen William Powers and Eugene O'Brien, alerted in their cruiser car by headquarters, caught up with the fleeing man at the corner of Kirkland Street and Summer Road...
...Forrestal, Bradley. Early in 1943 Taylor went to the Pacific as a correspondent to see and report the war firsthand. The climax of his tour of duty there was his unplanned presence at the night sea battle of Kula Gulf, which he watched from the bridge of the engaged cruiser St. Louis. The way he felt about it became the title of his book on the war in the Pacific: With My Heart in My Mouth. Taylor Is inclined to believe that some sort of rough justice is indicated by the fact that soon after returning unscathed from the Pacific...
...much you spend." By heeding his own warning, Attorney Medina had accumulated a comfortable fortune, built a fine summer home at Westhampton, N.Y., maintained a comfortable town apartment, sent his two sons, Harold Jr. and Standish, to Princeton and Columbia Law School, bought a 46-ft. cruiser and a string of sailboats, became an enthusiastic Princeton alumnus (class of '09) and had just about everything he wanted out of life. He had saved frugally for most of his working days. From 50 on he quit saving...
...spotting and knocking down approaching aircraft is another neat little job in itself. There is an increasing feeling that the fleet ought to spend more time worrying about these tasks, building up its anti-submarine forces and turning out specific anti-aircraft units like the fine new fast-living cruiser Worcester. There is an equally increasing feeling that it ought to finally bow gracefully out of the field of strategic bombing, make a little less noise, and get to work...
...afternoon, Franco in white admiral's uniform and Abdullah in kalpak boarded the Spanish cruiser Miguel de Cervantes. A high wind blew off Abdullah's kalpak but a lackey promptly produced another. All was shipshape as the Cervantes steamed proudly into El Ferrol to receive a 21-gun salute from other Spanish vessels and the visiting U.S. warships. Beaming with delight, Franco waved at the U.S. Marines as they presented arms while the Columbus band struck up Spain's national anthem, the Marcha Real...