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...them by seizing their men to fill out his crew. In another 48 hours the phlegmatic Englishman takes his first prize, a French merchantman that nets him ?5,000, storms.a French battery on the east coast of Spain, raids overland to burn a coastal vessel moving down a sheltered lagoon, on a night attack, steals another prize, lying under the guns of Port Vendres and winds up his exploits-for which he is severely censured by his admiralty-maneuvering the Sutherland close to shore and shattering infantry columns with his broadsides...
...Zach's Bay, the lagoon back of Jones Beach, New York's most efficient public playground 30-odd miles out of Manhattan on Long Island, a 136-ft. by 82-ft. stage was moored opposite a stand seating 10,000 people. There last week opened a season of opera and musicomedy, managed by Fortune Gallo of the San Carlo Opera Company. First performance was Roberta, which the audience beheld from a considerable distance, heard mainly through loudspeakers...
...Some 1,100 miles from Honolulu, this coral atoll is part of the Territory of Hawaii, is in the exact geographical centre of the Pacific. Its five-mile horseshoe is awash at high-tide except for one patch of sand. But the barrier breaks the combers, provides a quiet lagoon which is a mid-ocean lake, perfect for a plane base. There Pan American's six-man shore-crew has set up a cottage under the three palms. In the lagoon lies the 6,000-ton S. S. Northwind, with a radio direction finder and a 35-man airport...
...Willacy County, which lies almost at the southernmost tip of Texas, Luther Blanton, 57, and his son John, 24, went duck hunting one day fortnight ago. They went only a little distance from their own land, but they crossed a fence to get to a lagoon on the great King Ranch. They should not have done that. The King Ranch comprises 1,250,000 acres, four-fifths the size of Delaware, and belongs to the Klebergs who inherited it from their Grandfather Richard King, who founded it before the Civil War. With their 125,000 head of red Santa Gertrudis...
...savage blacks who inhabit the Solomon Islands* the Marovo Lagoon tribesmen were once considered the most heathenish, warlike, cannibalistic. At the turn of the last Century, however, Marovo had a Chief of Chiefs named Tatagu who proved to be eminently civilized. Long suspecting that there was nothing in the devil-fear to which the islanders had been addicted, Tatagu led a fishing expedition to sea one day, pointedly neglecting to affix to the prow of his boat a vine or "string" which was supposed to placate the devil, bring a good catch. After three fruitless days the tribesmen were about...