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Classic Action. In late November 1943, Burke's Little Beavers were refueling in Hathorn Sound when the call came to proceed "at 30 knots" (top speed) and intercept a Japanese force heading for Buka Island, off Bougainville's northern tip and 239 nautical miles away. Burke reported: "Proceeding at 31 knots." An hour later Admiral Halsey received Burke's latest position, along with word that the Little Beavers were still "making 31 knots." The next dispatch Burke received from Halsey was addressed to "31-Knot Burke." Burke had won his name...
First came a spell with a Gilbert & Sullivan road show. Then she starred in a coast-to-coast Merry Widow company, moved on to a grand opera touring company (63 Micaëlas in Carmen, 45 Violettas in Traviata), where, before long, she had to learn how to intercept passes from forward tenors without missing a note. For a while, she learned a role a month for TV's Opera Cameos, finally hit the big time two seasons ago when she sang Donna Elvira in the San Francisco Opera's Don Giovanni ("the most exquisitely sung aria...
...Crimson dominated every phase of the game, but its superiority was most marked in pass-making. The Indians began passing more hurriedly and more inaccurately as they fell behind, enabling the varsity to intercept quite often. The Crimson's own pass work was often superb. Cleary, who scored three goals, engaged in some fine play-making with Guttu, as did Owen with center Dan Ullyot, particularly when they were killing penalties...
...controls. The Russian plane also crashed, but its pilot came floating down to earth by parachute. Picked up by Austrian police, the Russian pilot identified himself as Captain Nikolai Konoklov, a veteran of the Soviet air force. Calmly and confidently he told his story: he had been ordered to intercept two unidentified planes flying over Hungarian territory. The collision was an accident...
...dozen sheiks, was seven times as large as that which accompanied Bulganin and Khrushchev. When some of India's 40 million Moslems tried to garland the King's head with flowers, strapping bodyguards, slung with pistols, gold-hilted scimitars and jeweled daggers, stepped in to intercept them...