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...nearly 1,000 years, brave and able seamen have feared the Goodwin Sands, a ten-mile sandbank just north of Dover. Thousands of ships have foundered in their sucking sands; with the hulks are buried tens of thousands of seamen, and cargoes of gold, silver and jewels...
...hours of vain efforts to get his ship off the Goodwins, Captain Ruocco sorrowfully went ashore with his crew of 28, two German stowaways and an Alsatian pup. Later he came back to the ship, hoping to jettison the heavy lead cargo. Tide and weather thwarted him. Sturdy little Dover tugs buzzed about the Silvia Onorato, greedy for salvage. But at week's end, the insatiable Goodwins* still held their prize. Said a lifeboat man with a touch of local pride: "I think the Goodwins got her for good...
Peter N. Toulmin '50 of Apley and Dover was chosen Varsity manager for 1948 in a simultaneous announcement delivered by John B. Ensign '46, present booter manager...
...Wednesday was dismal for travelers and travel services alike. The train for the Folkestone-Boulogne service had only 59 passengers (the day before there had been 404); the Dover-Calais train left with 133 passengers compared with 377 the day before. The same day, the British European Airways Corp. announced that it would have to cut its Continental services and sack one-third of its staff...
WALTER ALLYN ROGERS East Dover...