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...improvised sail made out of a lifeboat cover. On the fourth or fifth day, they sighted a tanker, but the quartermaster, who was senior man in the boat, was afraid to release a flare for fear of attracting a sub. He blinked an S O S with a flashlight, but the tanker did not respond...
Died. George Shiras, III, 83, naturalist, "father of wild life photography"; in Marquette, Mich. He discovered a successful method of taking flashlight pictures of wild animals, for more than half a century photographed them in wildernesses from Hudson Bay to Mexico...
Stanley Joseph Modzelewski, who plays pivot on Rhode Island State's basketball team, has for four years averaged 21 points a game. Last week, during a game with Holy Cross, Modzelewski scored 16 points; then, every time he tried to shoot, he was blinded by flashlight bulbs. Nevertheless, he finally sank one from the foul line and the shot the cameramen were after was recorded: Modzelewski scoring his 1,597th point in four years of college basketball. It cracked the all-time record* set by Stanford's Hank Luisetti four years...
Designers of women's clothes, always eager to ride a trend, worked their imaginations overtime. Sally Victor created a fireproof glass-and-asbestos hat, padded inside against cold and bumps, with a flashlight in the brim. Warborn was a handbag containing a bottle of luminous paint and a flap on which messages could be written...
...Newcastle, Ind., a woman reported to police the loss of her purse, containing: two watches, four rings, two automatic pencils, one fountain pen, several pins, a social-security card, a driver's license, two books, an American flag, one pearl-handled knife, one sliding-blade knife, one flashlight...