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Homeward bound to Los Angeles, the S.S. Bright Star was leaving the northern reach of the Philippines when the watch saw dense white clouds of smoke bursting out of the bosom of the Pacific. The Bright Star's skipper reported to Manila that an underwater volcano seemed to be erupting in the vicinity of Didicas Rocks, uninhabited islets some 70 miles off the coast of Luzon...
Other success stories are hardly less impressive. A Maine trawler skipper bought his wife a pair to keep her company while he was at sea, has since retired on the chinchilla income. A Connecticut tobacco grower took up chinchillas as a sideline, gave up his 7 5-acre tobacco farm when he began to net $20,000 a year on his animals. Pro & Con. But the breeders are careful not to make a large-scale test of the market for skins. Not for another five years or so will the U.S. chinchilla population be big enough (estimated as high...
More, Please. Instead of boarding their prize in Treasure Island style, the pirates ordered the Wing Sang's skipper aboard their ship. He was greeted by a raffish crew of about 70 young Chinese in faded khaki and peaked military caps, and with Colt revolvers, Mauser automatics and bandoleers. Their leader, a slim, handsome man whose badge of office appeared to be a pair of brown leather gloves, made a short speech. Money, said he. Stanton was ordered to send his lifeboat back to the Wing Sang, to pick up $10.000 in ransom, and a passenger...
...African Queen (Horizon; United Artists) is the name of a leaky, 30-ft. steam launch that wheezes along a remote little river in German East Africa, delivering mail and supplies. When World War I begins to creep into the jungle, Skipper Humphrey Bogart noses his boat into a quiet backwater, intending to sit out the fighting with a case or two of Gordon's gin. But he takes on an unwelcome passenger, Katharine Hepburn, a prissy, "skinny old maid" who has other ideas. Determined to strike a blow for King, country and her dead missionary brother, Hepburn browbeats Bogart...
...night of Dec. 27, 1951 fell black and squally over Formosa Strait. Through the choppy waters, the U.S.S. Higbee, a 2,425-ton radar-picket destroyer, steamed cautiously on patrol. Her skipper, Commander Verner J. Soballe, dozed fitfully in his sea cabin. But the Higbee was alert. Men on watch stood by the five-inch guns, and down below soundmen listened intently for signs of prowling enemy submarines...