Word: lions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...morning last week Coast Guardsmen stationed at Cape May, N. J. intercepted an SOS that shivered their timbers: "Any ship in neighborhood with guns on board . . . lion broken loose. ..." The sender was Royal Netherlands liner Amazone, steaming 90 miles off the coast with nine passengers, half a ton of gunpowder and some 14 wild animals which she was newcastling from New York zoos to a zoo in animal-ridden Venezuela. Her crew packed no firearms...
Coast Guard Commander Lieut. Burke prudently sought advice from Frank ("Bring 'Em Back Alive") Buck at his New York World's Fair Jungleland. Advised Big Gamester Buck: "They'll have to shoot him. Can't catch a lion loose on a ship...
After receiving more advice from Lion-tamer Clyde Beatty, Lieut. Burke asked a nearby rifle range to lend him its No. 1 marksman, a marine sergeant named Michael Peskin. Few minutes later Marksman Peskin and six guardsmen armed with submachine guns and 30-calibre rifles piled into a picket boat, shoved off for the Amazone, hove to southeast of Cape May, and their first lion hunt...
Meantime, terror harried the gunpowder-loaded, animal-ridden Amazone. For eight hours the lion, which had breached its cage in the night, had been padding fancy-free about the decks, while passengers cowered behind barricaded cabin doors. By massing furniture the 30-man crew finally managed to confine him to the forward deck...
Your comparison of Winston Churchill to Garner was certainly lacking in imagination [TIME, Aug. 14]. They are about as much alike politically or otherwise as a Lion and a Mule. By standards of culture, background and accomplishment, Churchill is a "Silk Purse" and Garner...