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Booked Up. Coghlan, who currently lives with his 19-year-old wife and infant daughter in a house trailer parked on the Port Arthur harbor ice, was overdue for some luck. Last summer a sudden Lake Superior gale swallowed Superior's 60-ft. barge, with equipment worth $20,000. Coghlan, fished out after five minutes in the lake, had no applicable insurance, was left with little equipment and $8,000 in debts. Steady elevator-inspection work now has the debts "under control," and Coghlan has bookings for $50,000 more of the same this year. But he yearns...
...last week, when the storm was even higher. Father Abbot Samson Wicksteed, 36, a wartime radioman in an R.A.F. bomber, led husky Brother Joseph, ex-Barrister Brother Thomas and wiry Father Anthony (an R.A.F. squadron leader in the Battle of Britain and D.S.O. winner) once again into the gale. This time there was also a bottle of rum in the tea chest...
...Wreck of the Mary Deare (Blaustein-Baroda; M-G-M). It was a dark and stormy night. The Sea Witch, a salvager out of Southampton, was riding out the Channel gale as a tight ship should. Suddenly, out of the night, a vast shape reared above the tiny vessel. With a gasp the helmsman spun the wheel. A wall of water smashed the Sea Witch broadside, hurling her clear of a big freighter, which "slid by like a cliff." Looking up, the skipper (Charlton Heston) saw no lights on the freighter, no sign of life on the bridge...
Like an autumn gale the political winds swept through the U.S., stirred the blood of politicos in both parties, carried a week's heavy crop of political straws. Among the straws...
...Vera last week smashed Japan with winds up to 135 m.p.h. The industrial city of Nagoya (pop. 1,300,000) was plunged into darkness, water rose in the streets, and the collapse of an apartment building pinned 84 in the wreckage. Eighteen miles south at Handa (pop. 68,000), gale winds and high seas crashed a 1,000-ton ship against the sea wall, and the raging ocean burst through, sweeping away 250 homes. In central Japan, rain-choked streams surged over their banks, and 85 bodies were taken from the raging Nagara River alone. Japanese railroads...