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Unlike most airplane pilots, ex-Marine Reuben Snodgrass waits expectantly for bad weather. When the clouds crowd down, or sea fog rolls in over Long Island's MacArthur Field, Rube and his crew crank up the Sperry Gyroscope Co.'s DC-3 and take...
...Stranger in Town (Mel Tormé; Capitol). The "velvet fog" is back with a lonely mood number that combines the story of That Old Gang of Mine with some of the feeling of One for My Baby...
Washington's travail promptly began again the next summer. His army, beaten on Long Island, escaped across the East River to Manhattan, thanks to a fog, regiments of Salem and Marblehead boatmen, Providence, and Washington's daring. It fought and retreated to White Plains, fought and retreated across the Hudson-and across New Jersey-and across the Delaware River into Pennsylvania. As winter deepened, only 2,400 ragged, ill-fed Continental regulars were left. On Dec. 20, 1776, Washington wrote to Congress: "Ten more days will put an end to the existence of our Army...
...President planned to make the trip in a DC-6 chartered by the committee (he insisted that the presidential plane Columbine should not be used for traveling to a Republican Party affair), but rain and fog kept him grounded. Instead, he rode in a special train (paid for by the G.O.P.). Missing out on the $100 banquet fare (turtle soup, filet mignon, ice cream, New York State champagne), he dined on the train, then changed into his dinner jacket to face the microphones...
...William S. Richardson of the Oceanographic Institution will fly the new instrument over the iceberg infested Grand Banks in a Navy amphibian. When the radar looks down through the fog and picks up a blip that might be either ice or a boat, he will take its temperature. If it is too cold for a boat, he will report it to the Coast Guard...