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...June 6, the 14-gun brig Yankee Hero chased what it thought was a large unarmed merchantman off Newburyport, Massachusetts. The large vessel dropped the disguise from its gunports and revealed itself as the 34-gun British frigate Milford. When Captain James Tracy refused to surrender, the Milford's guns pounded the Yankee Hero for two hours, killing or disabling nearly half its 40 crewmen. Tracy, wounded in the thigh, managed to gasp, "Strike the colors," then fainted...
...says, he took Meyer's sister and brother-in-law, Toni and Ben Bradlee, to the small Maryland town of Westminster. There the trio allegedly made contact with the deceased artist with the help of a local medium. As Truitt tells it, Meyer described her burial place in Milford, Pa., then told her audience: "Jack is here. Bobby is here now"-meaning Robert Kennedy, who was killed earlier that year. If Meyer did talk, however, the Bradlees will not; so far both have refused to comment on Truitt's latest tale...
...Milford, Conn...
...ankle are better now, so the Bengals sent their untested rookie back to Massachusetts to work out with a kicking specialist in Milford, which is why Pat McInally, on the morning of the Dart-mouth game, found himself standing in a drizzle outside Soldier's Field, practicing...
...know Tony?" McInally said, referring to the kicking specialist in Milford. "Well, he's convinced me I could kick soccer style. I'm the worst. I'm the worst in the world. I have no instep...