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...sense of duty toward her children. The Lady and the Pirate agree that whereas "women will play at adventure ... for a day and a night . . ." sooner or later "they will make their nest." In a line which appeased the Hays Office and should interest the Legion of Decency, the skipper assures his sweetheart that if she returns to domesticity, "nothing has happened which will make your life a pretense...
Several days from Sydney, the skipper was ordered to put in at a New Guinea port. Mrs. Shake told a party of officers who went ashore to be sure and ask around for Lieut. Hugh Fox Shake. They did. Bossing the foundry and machine shop at the port was Hugh Fox Shake...
When the sub moved in for a rescue, Jap shore batteries opened up on it. Shells landed so close that the skipper was forced to submerge. Then & there, he invented a brand-new rescue technique...
With only the top of his periscope above water, the skipper eased his craft close to the airman. Twice Brandt paddled away, thinking it was a Jap sub. Said the Skipper: "The Jap shelling finally got so bad he was willing to catch anything that came...
...July 1943, a sorry looking group of Navy men-officers and blue-jackets, all lucky to be alive-waded ashore on a Pacific island. Among them was Charles P. Cecil, tall, cold-eyed skipper of the heroic cruiser Helena (TIME, Nov. 1), which had been torpedoed in the July 7 Battle of Kula Gulf. With the others. Captain Cecil had floated for hours in the oil-covered waters. He had refused to be picked up until his men were rescued...