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...from a Coast Guard amphibian that landed at the scene, seized one drowning passenger, and fought off sharks for half an hour until they were both pulled to safety. Another hero was the DC-4's captain. He helped some passengers out of the plane and managed to float four life rafts before the plane sank. He hauled a baby and an elderly woman to a raft, and went back to rescue a third floundering passenger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTERS: Easter Excursion | 4/21/1952 | See Source »

...like entity of the musical drama, a spirit world exists. But it exists only in the mind of the Medium, who projects her world into the lives of the other characters. Menotti's eerie music sustains this mood, as the voices of the Medium and her daughter, Monica, float ethereally through the tense atmosphere, finally focusing outward in the sharp song of fear...

Author: By Michael Maccoby, | Title: THE MEDIUM | 3/29/1952 | See Source »

They never made it. Caught in the turbulent waters off Portland Bill in the south of England, Reliance was sent crashing on the rocks. For a whole night the Davisons clung to a tiny cork float in the freezing seas. Through pure luck, Ann was flung ashore, climbed away from the sea's reach with her last strength. Frank's adventure had ended sooner; his drowned body was found among the rocks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Two in a Boat | 3/24/1952 | See Source »

...there for two hours, rockin. As we were leaving, the dapper man with the horned-rim glassed waved goodbye. "You'll float all the way home," he said. HERBERT S. MEYERS

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Straight-Jacquet | 2/26/1952 | See Source »

...cannon (or cannon sound effects) have been booming forth for 70 years. In Rochester last week, the gunfire brought down some trophies. As the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra reached the firing point, and cannon roared offstage, the audience in Eastman Theater was astonished to see a cloud of duck feathers float down from the ceiling. The orchestra people hastened to explain that it was no part of the program. Their best guess: "Pranksters who knew music and the catwalks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Duck Feathers | 2/25/1952 | See Source »

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