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Leaves Canceled. In Buffalo, N.Y., U.S.O. Director Mrs. Odessa Shipley thought she knew just how to entertain 230 visiting British sailors from H.M.S. Scarborough, was terribly surprised when 1,000 tea bags went untouched...
Married. Thomas E. Dewey Jr., 26, member of the New York investment banking firm Kuhn, Loeb & Co., son of onetime (1942-54) New York Governor and twice-defeated Republican Presidential Candidate Tom Dewey; and Ann Reynolds Lawler, 22, daughter of an attorney; in Scarborough...
...Harm's Way." Born John Paul, the man who won fame as John Paul Jones went to sea at 13, by 21 was master of a merchant ship in the West Indies trade. But at the port of Scarborough, Tobago, in 1773, he got into a savage shipboard brawl with mutinous seamen, ran one through the body with his sword, and fled for his life. He assumed the name of John Jones, sailed to America, and at the outbreak of the Revolution, under the name John Paul Jones, offered his services to the Continental Navy...
...guns), frigates Alliance (36 guns) and Pallas (26 guns), and brig Vengeance (12 guns), Jones was cruising off Yorkshire's Flamborough Head when at 3 o'clock one afternoon he sighted a Baltic merchant fleet, escorted by frigate Serapis (50 guns) and sloop of war Countess of Scarborough (20 guns...
Died. Reuben Bennett D'Aigle, 85, legendary lone-wolf gold prospector who roamed the Canadian North in search of his fortune and always narrowly missed it; of a heart attack; in Scarborough, Ont. On his way to register a claim to gold he discovered in northern Ontario in 1907, "Sourdough" was sidetracked by tales of a silver strike, learned to his sorrow that he had passed up a $500 million gold mine. After years of scouring Labrador (which has remembered him in the names of rivers, lakes and streets), he struck iron ore, but the depression prevented him from...