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...surfaced, slowly drew close to the yellow raft. Crewmen on the deck saw that the airman was sound asleep under his rubber sheet. From a distance of six feet, a subman bellowed...
...looks. Most of the season's horrors, though often an unconscionable time a-dying, have died. Of 33 shows that have opened, 19 are under the sod. It is largely to plays of a certain age-last season's Star and Garter, The Doughgirls, Janie and a raft of others-that Broadway's rich playboys & girls still pay lucrative court...
...popular war books. In his congregation last Christmas Eve was Johnny Bartek, the "praying corporal" who was with Eddie Rickenbacker when their plane-crashed in the Pacific Ocean last year. The Dean got Bartek to tell him the story of the party's 21 days on a raft, and Pardue wrote it under the title Life Out There. It was also Pardue who suggested to Colonel Robert L. Scott that he write his experiences as one of General Chennault's aces. Result: the best-selling God Is My Co-Pilot (TIME...
Seven U.S. naval airmen, forced down in the Pacific, paddled their raft for two and a half days, until they reached an island. Down to the beach to welcome them came natives, handed the surprised flyers a book. It was the Bible. For 87 days the friendly Christian natives (converted years ago by missionaries) hid the Americans from Jap patrols. They also, said the airmen, converted them to Christianity. Last week Aerial Gunner Stanley W. Tefft of Toledo told...
...Portland, Ore., the seven men on a raft (TIME, Oct. 4) got off happily when lagging Oregon finally reached its $104 million quota...