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...trio of red tugboats nuzzled SS(N) 593-the nuclear submarine Thresher-away from her berth at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard. The tug whistles blasted, and three small children, still flushed from farewells to their fathers aboard Thresher, honked back from a car parked near by. The submarine headed out toward a sunny...
Confession v. Alibi. When the details of the confession checked out in Portsmouth, Loughan was charged with murder. "I felt confident that I could not lose the case even if I conducted it standing on my head," recalls Joshua David Casswell, who was the prosecutor in the court proceedings that followed. But to Casswell's chagrin, Loughan dismissed his confession as the kind of casual lie he enjoyed telling the police, claimed he spent the night of the murder sheltered from the blitz in London's Warren Street subway station-and produced five independent witnesses to prove...
...night in 1943, London police on robbery detail stopped a seedy little man for routine questioning and seemed to have stumbled on the solution of a murder in Portsmouth, 65 miles away. Harold Loughan-a brash habitual criminal-volunteered the information that he had crept into the rooms above the John Barleycorn pub three weeks before and, in committing a robbery, had strangled to death the pub's owner, Rose Robinson. "It's a relief to get it off my mind," he told the police. "I didn't mean to kill the old girl, but you know...
Britain was hit even more savagely than the Continent. Some 95,000 miles of highways were completely out of service. Eight-foot drifts blocked the main road from London to Portsmouth, and near Weymouth, belated rescuers dug down to a snow-buried car, found two dead and three nearly smothered travelers. Helicopters in Dorset saved 71 trapped bus passengers, including a month-old baby sheltered in a cardboard box. Asian Gur kha troops were called out from army camps to rescue stranded old-age pensioners in Wiltshire...
...ranked Roman Catholic prep school is Portsmouth Priory (220 boys), which aims not at Holy Cross or Notre Dame, but at Harvard, Yale, Princeton. New England-style prep schools are rare outside the East, but the best include Ohio's Western Reserve (235 boys), Colorado's Fountain Valley, California's Cote, which puts on classical drama in the original languages. California's Thacher shuns football but requires every boy to own and operate his own horse for two years. Top event there is a gymkhana featuring orange-spearing at full gallop. Equally important now: a summer...