Word: ices
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...captain and owner, 40-year-old Samuel Luttrell II, ordered all hands into their 16-ft. lifeboat. With his wife Kathleen, their twelve-year-old son Samuel III and six crew members, he put out into the darkening sea. Just before they cast off, someone grabbed two metal ice trays from the yacht and carried them into the boat...
...ice cubes turned out to be the only source of water they had. The inexperienced crewmen could not row back to the Amphitrite. Neither could they make the shore. Pushed by the current and the 40-m.p.h. gale from the northeast, they drifted helplessly southwestward, parallel to the shoreline...
When the Amphitrite's lifeboat was hauled into the Charleston docks, six waterlogged life-jackets lay inside. Two oars were underneath the seats. A single blue canvas sneaker bobbed in the salt water that covered the bottom of the boat, occasionally bumping into the metal ice trays, which gleamed dully in the bilge...
...still likes to play pranks. Once, on his way to a Halloween party, he sent word that he had been hurt in an auto accident. Then he tottered in, in Mercurochrome-splashed bandages. On another occasion, calling on a Digest editor to meet his new bride, Wallace broke the ice by starting a game of leapfrog with her on the lawn...
...more to stay for than his 200 misty-eyed followers. With his core of preachers-in-training he claims he is "just breaking the ice" in his present Sunday talks. He plans to send them all over greater Boston to speak, and eventually, to all the points in the country where a similar movement has begun, or where one can be started...