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Less than an hour after the start, a thunderstorm roiled the lake. Booming along at ten knots, the yawl Querida, out of Grosse Pointe, caught a lightning bolt on her masthead. The charge knocked out the radio and most of the electrical system, swirled the compass haywire. Worst of all, it fused together a generous supply of beer cans cooling in the bilge, and for hours afterward, the bilge pump produced beer on tap. The unnerved crew grabbed for the cans that survived, and broke open the emergency supply of hard stuff. "By the time we got to Mackinac." said...
First-class journalists, they quickly learn the ground rules for a good TIME story. Proof of this is in the adjoining masthead, which is heavily sprinkled with the names of former string correspondents, including about half the senior editors...
...press. But one is unique: the widespread confusion over whether the Catholic press, on such problems as U.S. foreign policy, immigration or "right to work" legislation, speaks with the voice of the church and follows a "Catholic line." What confounds the confusion is the "official" label in the masthead of virtually all the 104 diocesan weeklies. Unlike secular editors who wistfully hope that readers may take their editorial views as gospel, many a thoughtful Catholic editor wishes that readers would...
Gumshoes in the Bin. At famed Claridge's, a place for princes, maharajas and others who do not count their money, a Red flag hung from the marquee masthead. Detectives had already checked the coal bins for concealed bombs, replaced foreign-born waiters and busboys with a specially screened British floor staff. A squad of 80 uniformed constables jostled the crowd outside, while inside the hotel scores of bowler-hatted Scotland Yard gumshoes threaded their way among tables crowded by Mayfair society. As B. & K. hustled through the side entrance and up the stairway to the 50-room Russian...
...last week by proclamation of Provisional President Eduardo Lonardi. On the same day, anti-Peronist employees of the famed independent La Prensa, seized by Perón in 1951, threw pictures and busts of the dictator and his wife, Eva. from the building, began publishing the paper minus the masthead slogan "in the era of Perón." Editor and Publisher Alberto Gainza Paz, who has lived in exile in Manhattan, prepared to fly back to Buenos Aires in hopes of resuming control of Latin America's greatest newspaper. Said he: "I will fight for the reopening...