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...Navy changed its mind, moved the 58-year-old battleship to Apra Harbor, Guam, where, towards the end of the Pacific war, she did duty as a breakwater and ammunition ship. Shorn of superstructure and stricken from the Navy's active list, she still lies in Guam awaiting further orders...
...Shorn. In Doylestown, Pa., Charles Messantonio was sentenced to a year in jail for stealing and cashing checks after his attorney pleaded in court: "His family always considered him a black sheep, and that's the name he's lived...
From a British naval helicopter an airman was lowered into the water to pick up what looked like a body. "Got it," he said, but all he had was a pair of trousers shorn off at the knees. A motorboat crew threw a grappling hook at what looked like another body. It was a shark and two pilot fish. Five bodies were recovered, three men and two women, and doctors who examined them were struck by the similarity of their injuries to those suffered in the Comet disaster off Elba. There were no significant burn marks, no sign of oxygen...
...this slender and unpromising pretext to merge past and present in a way that would make that old master of the flashback, John Marquand, nod with approval. Tom's ancestors had helped to found the town of East Bank, had fought against the British to hold it. Now, shorn of both money and influence, the family has one great fear: change. They don't like to see people with foreign names getting rich and powerful. They are clannish to the point of absurdity, persist in thinking that they are the upper crust of East Bank long after most...
...Flying Squad. Back home in St. Louis, the Cards have a thoroughly renovated stadium. There is a new tile drainage system for the playing field, and every tired old seat has been replaced or repaired. Outfield fences have been shorn of advertising (even Budweiser signs are absent) and painted a deep, simple, hitter's green. Among other things, there are 16 luxurious boxes where, for $2,500 a season, upper-bracket fans can whoop it up with waiter service; all 16 are already rented for the season...