Word: patroled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Admiral Sir Reginald Bacon, 83, oldtime Royal Navy submarine expert, commander of World War I's famed Dover Patrol, which protected thousands of Allied soldiers from U-boats on the dangerous Channel crossing; in Romsey, Hampshire...
...from the train during an air attack. Winter caught him on the Yugoslav border and he holed up in a cave with two New Zealanders. To pass the long days they whittled statuettes and model airplanes, invited kids from the nearby villages to come look. One night a German patrol looked in too and recaptured them...
...oldtime, rootin'-shootin' law enforcer of the Wild West; in Tucson, Ariz. During a career that made a Hollywood horse opera seem tame, Milton was a Texas Ranger, deputy sheriff in once-lawless Apache County, Ariz., police chief of El Paso, a one-man Rio Grande border patrol (from El Paso "to hell & gone"). He once went after three train-robbing desperados, wired back: "Send two coffins and one doctor...
...Navy took him up in a plane to do 17 pictures of the Navy's blimps in action. For weeks, he painted nothing but blimps: in hangars, on submarine patrol, against the sunset. Standard Oil (N.J.) flew him to Venezuela to paint oil wells. The Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad put him on a private car ("You should have seen those huge bedrooms, with big brass beds in them") to picture the West Virginia countryside...
...complete program follows: "Inver-cargill," by A. P. Lithgow; Dartmouth Medley, by Leroy Anderson '29; "American Patrol," by F. W. Meacham; "Tercentenaria," by Anderson; "Knights-bridge March," by Cedric Coates...