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...hills one morning last week, the tiny (34-ton) whaler Arctic Skipper put out from the weathered jetty at Dildo and chuffed at a steady six knots down Trinity Bay. Deck hands were just finishing their breakfast of fried eggs, sausage and coffee in the tiny galley when a lookout cried: "Pothead!"† Captain Iver Iversen rang the engine signal. As the Skipper picked up speed, the whales sounded. When they came up again, they were heading out to sea, and a deck hand fired a rifle shot to turn them. A red signal flag went up the mast...
Better Late. In Albuquerque, police were warned to be on the lookout for two escapees from the Arkansas state penitentiary: Frank Duke, 42, who made off in 1934, and Jim Freeman, 71, who turned the trick...
...dropped, a British lookout spotted a Russian officer checking Communist positions on the hill. Suddenly the officer fell flat on his face. The British and West Germans guffawed. The Russian glared, stood up and fell again as though it had all been a planned maneuver. The Westerners cheered. All that night the men on both sides remained at the alert for an overt move. It never came. Next day the Life Guards decided the Russians would not invade and rolled back to their barracks. The German frontier guards followed. The Communists climbed out of their foxholes and marched home...
...Lookout Mt., Tenn...
This is certainly not what was done in the present case. That a Boston Newspaper published a sensational article about it is not the most surprising of all. It is common practice that newspapers and their reporters ever be on the lookout for sensationalism. In our days, big juicy headlines have too often become, more than the quality of the information itself, the usual means to increase sales...