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...Soviet officials trained floodlights on the consulate at night, refused to let the U.S. officials travel. The U.S. Office of Foreign Service referred to Vladivostok as the "end of the line" and, regarding the job's conditions as comparable in strain to the loneliness and frustration on a lightship, changed the consulate's staff every six months to be sure nobody buckled under. Consul Lyon, married in the U.S. last June, had assumed his post but two days before the order came to close...
Baruna was a boat to warm an old salt's heart. She liked it rough, with seas kicking up and a breeze with some weight in it. Soon after she cleared Newport's Brenton Reef Lightship for last week's long 635-mile thrash to Bermuda, the wind veered into the northeast. It blew harder as the night wore on. At dawn, Baruna's crew began shortening sail; the jigger was doused and later the mainsail was taken in. With only a Genoa jib set, she boiled along ahead of 35 rival ocean racers...
...Florence B., a scallop boat, was scalloping along off the New Jersey coast last week, in 105 feet of water, 50 miles southeast of Ambrose Lightship. Among the scallops the rake dredged up a curious object: a gigantic tooth that would have taken a Paul Bunyan dentist with forceps the size of crossed crowbars to extract. The tooth was 6.5 inches long and Weighed 3.7 pounds. The roots were rust-colored and scaly, but the hard crown was jet black, as if the owner had chewed betel nuts...
...destroyer H.M.C.S. Micmac, 2,300 tons, bounded home to Halifax, spirits were high. The morning's "wups"* had been successful. Sailors lazed on upper decks, chatted about a forthcoming Atlantic cruise. Ahead, inside Sambro lightship, lay dense patches of fog, but that was nothing to worry about. The Micmac's radar was the most modern afloat. She sounded her klaxon, stepped briskly into a fog bank at 20 knots...
...London, as a full director, MacDonald made the documentary Men of the Lightship, turned out a dozen or so successful and forgettable potboilers, filmed the blitz fires of London from the dome of St. Paul's. His shyness once drew from King Vidor an indirect compliment: "That guy would have been a top Hollywood director but he just didn't know how to blow his own horn." Said MacDonald last fortnight, to a preview group of film and pressmen: "These combat scenes can be done in Hollywood and you can do them very nicely, without loss of life...