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...only previous time that beach territory had interested detectives was a few days after the crime when Federal money bags were found in Peabody and Sangus. Police were probably thinking of the pea-jackets, or of the sailor knots used to tie two Brink's cashiers and three guards. They may have been thinking back 15 years to the second largest cash theft in history, when ten thugs with machine guns robbed an arptored car of $427,000 in Brooklya and escaped across Jamsica Bay in a high powered speed-boat. The money in that case was never recovered...
...year-old seaman named Bergman had been left with only two feet of jejunum and duodenum. He worked on a soot-grimed freighter pitching and rolling across Bass Strait between Melbourne and Tasmania. Althausen and Melbourne's Dr. Ronald Doig made one interesting discovery in studying the sailor: it made no difference to his two feet of small intestine whether he got predigested or ordinary food. Says Althausen: It proved to be 'just as good for him to have steaks and chops as that predigested mush, which is very expensive and tastes...
...Isbrandtsen Co. Inc.'s rough, tough President Hans Isbrandtsen did not deny that the ship in question was his Flying Cloud. Isbrandtsen didn't like the author of the letter, though. He called him a "crackpot." This week, however, Senator Magnuson was planning to investigate the sailor's charges...
...soldier will replace a sailor as director of the country's top-secret Central Intelligence Agency, the White House announced. The President had persuaded Lieut. General Walter Bedell ("Beedle") Smith to take the job held for the past 39 months by Rear Admiral Roscoe Hillenkoetter...
DeCarlo was the kind of sailor who would have given Conrad a Bronx cheer; that is, if DeCarlo had read books. He had sailed a lot, but had really "never traveled." He had "America lashed onto him like a rucksack and he spread it out in the handiest spot." He had smuggled 1,700 cartons of Pall Mall cigarettes aboard ship, and he was going to spread them out on the Bangkok black market. His modest objective: enough cash to start a used-car business back in the States and quit the sea for good...