Word: harbor
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Ireland, 35, who also has eight battle stars, a Bronze Star and two individual citations, began his military career in 1941 by enlisting in the Royal Canadian Air Force. Five days after Pearl Harbor, he joined the U.S. Marines...
Anyone with an Itch. There was a time when sailors were pretty well confined to short stretches of blue water between Bar Harbor, Me. and Palm Beach, Fla. with a few genteel outposts in New Orleans, the Great Lakes and the West Coast. Those were the days when a wealthy gentleman, admiring J. Pierpont Morgan's 302-ft. Corsair, asked him: "How much does it cost to run a yacht?" And old J.P. bluntly told him: "You cannot afford it. Anyone who has to ask how much it costs to run a yacht cannot possibly afford to keep...
...only) from 1,000 in 1940 to 2,300 today; in the same period, yacht clubs in the area have increased from 20 to 34. And West Coast sailors, unlike Easterners, who generally sail in protected waters with light or fluky winds, have to cope with a minimum of harbor facilities and a maximum of brisk breezes. Around San Francisco, where winds regularly hit up to 30 knots in the bay, any craft under 25 feet is properly considered risky. But the West Coast sailor glories in his necessities: he is an open-water sailor...
Bronze Ring. One of the last Americans to leave Japan before Pearl Harbor, Gilbertson enlisted in the Navy and was sent straight back to the Orient as an intelligence officer. After the war he stayed on for a year in Korea. Throughout his adventures, Gilbertson kept exploring the secrets of his craft. "In the Orient," he explains, "you can always find people who share your passion for ceramics and will discuss them by the hour. China has as many collectors of ceramics as we have chamber music fans...
...Mitsuo Fuchida, 51, onetime Japanese navy airman who directed the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and later became a Christian convert and missionary (TIME, Nov. 17), paid Hawaii a return visit last week. "This time," he told reporters, "I come not with orders from Tokyo but from a higher command: God." When he spoke of a wish to lay a wreath on the bombed-out hulk of the U.S.S. Arizona, which still holds the bodies of 1,092 U.S. Navymen below decks, the Honolulu Advertiser editorialized: "Hawaii will listen with interest to what Captain Fuchida has to say, but Hawaii believes...