Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Whidby Island in Puget Sound, the farmers' beach patrol was on watch, night after night, regardless of Senatorial questions and military reverses, with "an eye to the sky and an ear to the ground." The volunteer harbor patrol at Seattle, run by the man who was once the fastest tap dancer on the Pantages circuit, cruised over Lake Washington. In the immense structural shop at the Charleston Navy Yard the work went on: the steel plates rumbled through the press rolls in surging roars, the hydraulic presses crunched down, the giant shears clamped through metal, the brilliant blue glare...
...Year's Eve] I went on watch at 6 that evening, with a complete outfit-tin hat, gas mask, canteen, rifle and bayonet and nothing but water in the canteen either. Me and another guy were out with a Doberman dog patrolling a section of Terminal Island shoreline. Everything was completely blacked out and it was raining to beat the band. We had raincoats on but even then after six hours of it we got pretty wet. You could hear harbor waters swishing on one side of us and just barely make out a high wire fence...
...Vanderbilt, 17, daughter of Mrs. Reginald C. Vanderbilt; and Pasquale di Cicco, 32, Hollywood actor's agent, ex-professional darncer; he for the second time; in Santa Barbara. Di Cicco's first wife was the late Cinemactress Thelma Todd. His father, the late Pasquale Sr., was Long Island's "Broccoli King." Gloria comes into...
Died. Richard Steere Aldrich, 57, retired Republican Congressman from Rhode Island (1923-33), brother of Mrs. John D. Rockefeller Jr. and Manhattan Banker Winthrop Aldrich, son of Rhode Island's late Senator Nelson W. Aldrich (Payne-Aldrich tariff); in Providence...
Last fortnight Donald and his twin brother Eugene cut their high-school classes, hitchhiked from their Long Island home to a Marine Corps recruiting office in Manhattan. Eugene (190 Ib.) got in. Donald...