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...mighty U.S.S. Missouri heaved a metallic sigh and slipped off the Chesapeake Bay shoal where she had sat, unbudging, on her big broad bottom, for 15 days. The band played Anchor's Aweigh and Nobody Knows de Trouble I See. In drydock, the damage proved slight. This week, haggard Captain William D. Brown, whose troubles were just beginning, would have to explain to a court of inquiry how, on his first trip as her commanding officer, he had run the Missouri aground in the Navy's best-known channel...
...trail, as if it were about to bite. Argosy Editor Jerry Mason, 36, claimed that his January issue had topped the 1,000,000 mark in sales (the guarantee: 750,000). Like True, Argosy was once a pulp, which boasted such bylines as Edgar Rice Burroughs and H. Rider Haggard; but its fortunes and circulation had ebbed. Then Popular Publications took over, turned it into a slick, and it started up. Last April, Mason, onetime associate editor of the Sunday supplement This Week, moved in. He borrowed some old tricks, and added some circulation-getting new ones. His latest circulation...
...drizzly afternoon last week, a train from Oranienburg rolled into Gesund-brunnen Station in Berlin's French sector. Haggard men in tattered clothes and bony, hollow-eyed women straggled onto the platform. Last to get out was a white-faced, white-haired old man with a frayed velvet-collared overcoat. He leaned gasping against a wall. "Yes, yes, from over there," he muttered. "I must be dreaming. Please don't ask me any questions...
...left wing. The B-17 circled to drop smoke bombs and green-dye markers, then flew in low to release a parachute-borne "Flying Dutchman" lifeboat. "It was a beautiful drop," said Grable. "Right in our laps." Seventy-nine hours after their B-29 went down, the bearded, haggard survivors were hoisted safely over the rail of the Canadian destroyer Haida...
Perhaps the sedate editors of the London Times had read a lot of fiction of the Rider Haggard school. Last week, as it must to all romantics, disillusion came to the Times. Its correspondent in Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia, cabled some stolid facts about "bush telegraphy...