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...Wood packed a copy of Mein Kampf, which he had been reading during his vacation, and started off with the others. After a weary four-day trek through the wilderness, a flight by plane to Juneau, a trip down the coast by revenue cutter to Seattle and a transcontinental hop, he reported in Washington. He need not have been in such a hurry. The Board's plan for mobilizing the U.S. in a defense program was later submitted to the President, never saw the light of day. The Board was dissolved, and Wood went back to his Highland Park...
...heavy all day over the far reaches of Penobscot Bay, had gradually lifted and faded; about 3 o'clock the watchers saw the top-heavy, bulging, comfortable Presidential yacht coming around the breakwater, could see beyond it the escorting Coast Guard cutter Calypso, sleek, dangerous, moving like a loafing shark...
Cruising down the Potomac on a hot Sunday afternoon, the onetime Coast Guard cutter Milan turned suddenly off course when five tide-spun swimmers were spotted struggling in the water 1 ,000 yards away. As the cutter drew up, lines were thrown overboard. Then the strong arms of Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox, Assistant Secretary Ralph Bard and Colonel William Joseph ("Wild Bill") Donovan helped pull the swimmers to safety...
Under New York's Baumes (four-times-is-out) law, conviction would automatically jail him for life. Steve Dutton didn't give it a thought. Before the judge he pleaded not guilty: seems he was passing a building in his neighborhood when he remembered that the paper cutter inside was his own property years ago. He broke in, dismantled the 6,000-lb. machine, horse-carted it to a junkman to be sold...
...little white-walled room overlooking Manhattan's Fifth Avenue a bespectacled, white-haired man last week undertook one of the toughest sawing jobs in the world. He was Adrian Grasselly, 58-year-old veteran diamond cutter, one of the few living men who could be entrusted with the job of cutting the famed Vargas Diamond, largest (726.60 carats) known uncut diamond in the world. The diamond, discovered by a farmer in Brazil three years ago, is named for Brazil's President Getulio Vargas. Because there is no market for diamonds that big, Owner Harry Winston, Manhattan jewel merchant...