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...beach of Eniwetok, one of the Marshall Islands, where U.S. troops fought and died a few months ago, now stands a Navy officers' mess, in front of it a stern notice: "There will be no drinking by anyone on the pier and all skylarking and needless pushing and pulling must be stopped...
...pushed the tide into towns, sent great seas tumbling and smashing upon the land. Then the lights went out and telephone lines went down; the chattering radios were stilled, and the candles were lit. At Atlantic City the wind ripped up the famed boardwalk, smashed through the famed Steel Pier...
Heroic Ugliness. Horn-rimmed Auctioneer Harry Loree moved from bedroom to bedroom, followed by a herd of bidders. In each room he mounted a chair, addressed his audience in machine-gun auctionese: "I have eight dollars bid for the pier-mirror eight dollars eight dollars eight dollars SOLD to what's the name please?" Prices were middling: $25 for most of the marble-topped dressers, $3 to $50 for figured carpets, $20 apiece for twin brass beds. One of the 888-ft. long red Axminster carpets from a hallway brought $1, 600. For the two florid front-lawn urns...
...four long weeks he had slept twelve hours every night in the indolent air of Hobcaw Barony, Bernard Baruch's 23,000-acre South Carolina plantation, 60 miles north of Charleston. He had sunned himself on the pier that juts out into the brackish waters of Winyah Bay. He had cast for bass in plantation ponds, gone crabbing and snagged eels from the pier, fished up & down the Black and Waccamaw Rivers on a 54-ft. Coast Guard patrol boat. Under a canopy of blimps and patrol planes, he had trolled for bluefish and bonito 15 miles...
...third shot carried away a privy on the end of the pier, containing, I think, the night watchman. We hit the target about 25 times. We kept it up about a quarter-hour before the sleepy Italians realized somebody was shooting at them. They didn't do very much except fire some star shells seven miles out to sea. As we slid out they got a light on us. A couple of shells fell close. Next day they claimed to have sunk...