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...southwest toward the islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon. Lieut. Commander Ralph Hickox, skipper of the elderly flush-deck destroyer Truxtun, knew he was somewhere near the end of the spit, but he could not see. The wind was blowing more than 60 miles an hour and low-flying scud dropped the visibility toward zero. The Truxtun ran aground. So did the naval supply ship Pollux. The waves, pounding in like sledgehammers to the base of a 200-ft. cliff, began to break the two ships...
Onslow Beach was whipped with rain and the breakers were capped with white when Task Force 18 began its exercises one night. On a high-topped dune "Howlin' Mad" Smith stood with his staff, scanning the sea through night glasses. Through the scud a signal light blinked in code: "Execute...
...little tossing trawlers in the raw North Sea, who can scarcely defend themselves with rifles when Nazi bombers dive at them from the storm scud, Germany's air war on British shipping is a very real and horrid thing. Machine-gun fire sweeps the deck, bombs blow the ship apart, men are hurled mangled and stunned into the combers, the ship goes down leaving survivors to flounder and gasp and freeze until help comes, if it does...
...last year's champion. After three days of racing, over a six-mile course, 22-year-old Robert Levin of Beverly, N. J. hoisted the championship pennant-scoring 109½ points with his Bad News. Runner-up, only 5½ points behind, was spunky Sally Wilcox and her Scud-a better skipper by three points than oldtimer Merrill and J. Ramsey Speer Jr., chairman of the Regatta Committee...
...first to use the line, "And the villain still pursued her." Most painstaking search was for the script of Metamora: or, The Last of the Wampanoags, first actable U. S. drama about American Indians, and a favorite of Edwin Forrest. This week the Lost Plays series presents Flying Scud, one of six lost dramas by Dion Boucicault. Its claim to fame: the line "I've got to see a man about...