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...time at $21 a month. In one of the first New York groups to be drafted, Martin, then a bachelor, went good-humoredly off to Fort Dix, helping, as Selective Service Boss General Lewis B. Hershey said, "to convince people that we were dealing off the top of the deck it helped to have some aces and kings come off as well as deuces." Martin was a full colonel when discharged...
...delight of the scorekeeper-historians, their figures are already the foundation for endless argument. "The Babe got a break," says the man in the stands. "The opposition had to pitch to him. Gehrig was always on deck." The long-memoried fellow alongside demurs: "Look at the record. They walked the Babe 138 times in '27. He had only 540 at bats. Mantle has 413 with a fourth of the season left. And what about Berra? Do pitchers pass the Mick...
...replaced her coif with a towel, quietly fingered beads. A group gathered around a young boy they remembered later only as Peter. Unable to find his father and mother, he went to his knees and said the rosary aloud. Six young girls sat together on the canted deck and sang to keep up spirits. Another circle told jokes. Mrs. Sam Frlekin of San Pedro, Calif, grabbed a rail she was to clutch for almost three hours and offered a short plea: "Dear God, help me hang on." The ship's list increased to 45°. Captive water from Andrea...
...burned raw as Andrea Doria's passengers slid awkwardly down ropes into the bobbing boats under the tilted starboard rail. With a shriek, an elderly woman lost her unfamiliar grip and fell heavily into a boat, where she landed grotesquely and lay still. Children were tossed from the deck to the outstretched arms of seamen. An impatient woman climbed the rail, dropped into the sea and swam for the nearest boat. As the boats filled and pulled away, some evacuees helped pull the oars, some sat stunned and silent, some leaned miserably over the side to be seasick...
SUIT AGAINST G.M. is planned by Greyhound, automaker's best bus customer. Greyhound charges that 570 out of 1,000 double-deck, air-conditioned Scenicruiser buses purchased from G.M. for $53 million developed lubrication troubles...