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...addressed or spoke of his father as his "old man." And I do not care for anyone else to address his father in that manner either. ... It was Aldrich, even tho a "lad" that provided the most of the food on that voyage. It was he who sighted the islet. . . . You see, I received a telegram from headquarters, saying that my son would recount his experience adrift in a rubber life raft in an interview over NBC Blue network. . . . And it was the "Aldrich lad," that led that little band in the Lord's Prayer (even tho Dixon...
Discipline on the island was once so harsh that a favorite punishment for incorrigibles was to maroon them without food or water on a shelterless, rat-infested islet. Many men preferred death among the sharks in the water to fighting off the rats for days & nights...
APPLEBY ON ARARAT-Michael Innes-Dodd, Mead ($2). A learned Scotland Yarder, marooned with five other loquacious characters on remote Pacific islet, elucidates the slaying of Sir Ponto Unumunu, black anthropologist, and goes on to puncture an Empire-threatening secret of oddly assorted indigenes. Overtones of Evelyn Waugh, G. K. Chesterton and E. P. Oppenheim make it a treat for those who like their mysteries recondite...
...barren, waterless, craggy, four-square-mile Italian rock of Castellorizo, near the Dodecanese Islands-two miles off the Turkish coast and 60 miles from Rhodes (where the Germans were this week reported to have sent Stuka dive-bombers). After brief opposition, the British forced a landing and took the islet...
...Navy will have the use of about three square miles on Parham Sound and also of a site on Crabs Peninsula across the harbor. St. Lucia, 2,600 miles west of Dakar and 1,150 miles from the Canal, will house a 120-acre seaplane base at Gros Islet Bay, and possibly other facilities not yet decided...