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...minutes of the deadliest close-range fighting, the Boise had fired more than 1,000 rounds of five-and six-inch shells. Her sister ships had given her up for lost, but two hours later-her exploded magazine flooded, her bulkhead shored up, her shell holes stuffed with bedding-she ghosted into her regular station in column. "She was down by the head, but on an even keel...
...Bridgehouse Prison, Powell's grilling filled a half-dozen notebooks. Japanese, who take for granted their own correspondents are spies, refused to believe he was not one. In Cell No. 5, a 12-by-18-ft. cage with six-inch bars, he was dumped among 40 prisoners-consumptives, lepers, syphilitics, even a few Japanese. Eaten alive by lice, they tried to keep warm by crowding five or six together under one filthy blanket. Rations were rice, occasionally embellished by fish heads and seaweed. Forbidden to talk to each other, the prisoners were compelled to sit on the floor...
From Reuter's Correspondent Norman Thorpe came an eyewitness account of her destruction. Thorpe was aboard. "Violent explosions" sent him rushing to the quarterdeck. As the Eagle heeled over, "six-inch shells, each weighing 100 lb., tore loose from their brackets and bumped down the clifflike deck." Seamen flung themselves overboard to escape the runaway shells. Thorpe himself slid down a rope into the thick, oil-coated sea, let go, realized with horror that he had not blown enough air into his lifebelt. He thrashed his way to a cork float...
...Coordinator is the game's inventor: Dr. William E. Code of Chicago. Codeball is played with six-inch rubber balls; has two forms: Codeball-on-the-Green is like golf, except that the ball is kicked into 14 specially constructed "bowls" covering about a mile and a quarter in one round. Codeball-on-the-Court is played, also with the feet, on a handball court...
Invisible weapons might include: a six-inch lady's hatpin, or a wrist knife strapped to the wrist with the hilt downwards; a knife hung around the neck; a small revolver held up the sleeve by rubber bands; a stiletto with a nine-inch blade. Other useful weapons : a hammer, cheese-cutters (wires with wooden handles, handy for garroting) ; a handkerchief with a fistful of sand in it. Besides blankets, extra socks, binoculars, rifles, burnt cork to blacken the face, etc., an important part of the equipment is 25 to 30 yards of fishline. This has many uses...