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...braved the dangers of Solomon Island cannibals and Ball maidens, "Captain Jock" Low '45, back again at Harvard, will give an illustrated lecture in the Institute of Geographical Exploration tonight at 8 o'clock on his trip around the world in the schooner "Yankee." One of the members of Skipper Irving Johnson's crew, his nickname "Captain Jock" is a product of undergraduate days...
...Skipper Collius have fun last week, laid up with a case of Navy special "cat fever." But he's back at the wheel, so all's shipshape. Hope we can say the same for Seth Gray in a week or so. He's just about got that fever "with complications" beat, and we should be seeing him soon...
...target, the U-boat works at Vegesack, near Bremen, was nearly lined up in the bombsight. Topside, Jack's skipper had called for readiness. Suddenly a burst of flak punched the plane on the nose. Jack Mathis was hit in the chest, side and back. The plane shuddered, went right on into the groove. Jack picked himself up, crawled in a widening path of his own blood back to the Norden bombsight, made his final adjustments with his left hand (his right was limp). At the proper moment...
...Zealander backed away, guns still blazing. Jap soldiers with full packs poured out of the conning tower and tried frantically to unleash life rafts. Again the patrol boat rammed, sheering off one of the sub's hydroplanes. And once again-said the skipper: "This time we climbed clear over her top and rode her piggyback." They got off by giving the engines full astern...
Smoke billowed out from the Jap's hatches. Lashed by the New Zealander's gunfire, the sub limped towards shore. Off Cape Esperance it suddenly went down at the stern. Said the New Zealand skipper: "There she rested on a reef, and she's still there with 30 or 40 feet of her bow in the air pointed towards Tokyo. I ordered the rum broken out for each...