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William Shakespeare's Hamlet-presented by Ferrymen Productions. At the C. Walsh Theatre at Suffolk University at 55 Temple Wt. in Boston. Call 354-8692. Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Theater | 10/17/1991 | See Source »

...average of three B-52s were shot down every two days. Vignettes of the flyers' fates materialized out of North Viet Nam too. One B-52 pilot was inflating his life raft twelve miles downstream from Hanoi in an attempt to escape, when he was surrounded by ferrymen. His last transmission on his survival radio: "Everything O.K. I am surrounded. I surrender...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WAR: Nixon's Blitz Leads Back to the Table | 1/8/1973 | See Source »

...Kennedy and all the others at the party both before and after the accident," said Dinis. He wants to explore not only the immediate questions surrounding the fatal accident but also the larger discrepancies in Kennedy's public accounting of that night. The district attorney will call the ferrymen who carried Kennedy and his friends back and forth from Edgartown to Chappaquid dick, the owner of the Shiretown Inn, where the Senator was staying, and the local manager of the New England Telephone Co., whose records may disclose what calls the members of the Kennedy party had made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Kennedys: Calling the Witnesses | 8/29/1969 | See Source »

...Venice?" In parts of the hemisphere's fifth city (pop. 2,234,000), water stood waisthigh. Thousands of working-class houses were flooded; many downtown shops closed; streetcar service was disrupted. Boys and unemployed men picked up welcome pesos transporting pedestrians across riverlike streets. Some of the ferrymen used surplus U.S. Navy life rafts or primitive boats made of packing cases; others, in hip boots or swimming trunks, carried their customers pickaback...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: One Touch of Venice | 8/4/1952 | See Source »

...June -see p. 32) the upstart Ferrying Command was getting all the priority it needed in men and materials. It also had a go-getting commander who has long had a reputation in the Army flying service for getting what he needs. The Ferrymen's boss, slim, 45-year-old Colonel Robert Olds, who has been flying for the Army since he was commissioned in 1917, today is as fine a big-ship handler as there is in The Air Forces. Accounted one of the flying service's white-haired boys, handsome Bachelor Olds has flown Flying Fortresses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR: Bombers for Britain | 8/4/1941 | See Source »

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