Word: shores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...army; on the right the Communists were poised for an assault crossing. Suddenly, about 125 miles upriver, some 75 miles from Nanking, the Communists opened up with artillery, fired twelve rounds and scored twelve misses. Fifty minutes later, ignoring Union Jacks unfurled over the side, another and more accurate shore battery scored 53 hits on the Amethyst. Dead and wounded lay scattered about her deck. The ship's doctor was killed, the skipper was wounded and soon died, and most of the guns were put out of action. The Communists answered the Amethyst's white flag of truce...
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, has visited Canada only once-a few hours' shore leave in Halifax in 1941 when he was 20 years old. "He looked just like any other Royal Navy midshipman," remembers a Halifax girl. "He seemed to be growing out of his uniform." Philip's wife, Princess Elizabeth, has never been in Canada at all, though her uncle, the Duke of Windsor, owns an Alberta ranch, and her parents, King George and Queen Elizabeth, toured the Dominion in 1939. The heiress-presumptive to the British throne has, in fact, visited only...
...Falmouth Playhouse at Falmouth on the south shore near Buzzard's Bay also has a noteworthy program. Jackie Cooper plays through the weekend in the 1947 comedy hit, "John Loves Mary." Beginning July 16th Veronica Lake stars in John van Druten's "Voice of the Turtle"; on July 30th Constance Bennett begins in "The Skylark"; on August 6th Arthur Teacher appears in "Clutterbuck"; and if you're thinking of a week on the Cape after summer school is over, you can see Carol Bruce in Rodgers and Hart's "Pal Joey" which begins on August 27th...
...amphibious landing force, only to see it wiped out from the air. An air-force bomb caught the Sri Ayuthia. Fire broke out on board and the ship began to list. Premier Phibun took to the water along with his captors, and, flanked by navy men, swam to shore and safety...
...Sailor Bob Murphy wades into a fight with the free-swinging enthusiasm of a shore-leave sailor for a barroom brawl. Last week, facing Jake LaMotta at Yankee Stadium, Murphy was right in his element, throwing punches with the thumping regularity of a piston-if not with a piston's precision...