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...Navy plane, a Privateer, dropped low over the water, barely 150 feet above the surface. Looking from the tiny ports, it seemed that even a moderate-sized wave could reach up and capsize us. Lieut. Bill McCord, at the controls, swore beautifully and expressively...
...They're not fooling anyone," said Lieut. McCord. "They're American owned, American manned, and carrying American freight. On some, even the decks are loaded. On others, we can see American crews on deck-at least, they look like Americans, from masthead height. Sure as hell, they're not Panamanians...
...sealed in a steel flying tube for ten or twelve hours. Or the gnawing, ever-present fear of the unexpected which could plunge you into the water below-or, worse, make you a prisoner in Siberia. "We know they know we're here," said Lieut. McCord. "Our radar shows when their radars are working. Sometimes they send up fighters, but not on a day like this. We've seen them on the screen, but they've never found...
...matter of fact, this poem is one of the most famous pieces of light verse over published in America. It appears in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations and in most anthologies of such work. A note in one of these, What Cheer, edited by David McCord '21, states that it was even published in Shanghal...
With all due respect to Thomas Ybarra, John Bartlett, Christopher Morley, Louella D. Everett, David McCord, and Mr. Train, the reviewer still considers the poem "lifeless," trite," and "unfunny...