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...cruiser which fired two shots across her bow. Four officers and a party of marines boarded the ship, demanded to examine the ship's log. The captain refused, radioed Hong Kong for help. After loitering aboard ship for 20 minutes, the Japanese withdrew. The French freighter Aramis, whose skipper was not so tough, was not only halted by a destroyer but armed marines searched her. The captain of the German Hamburg-Amerika liner Sauerland, giant swastikas painted on her sides, was asked to show his papers and, when he did, was then allowed to continue...
...Yankee Clipper is ready, sir, standing by for orders," Skipper La Porte answered with self-conscious crispness. From his swarthy chief he took the manifest, went aboard, and gave the command to cast off. Out on Long Island's Manhasset Bay, the Clipper headed into the wind. The thunder of her four engines re-echoed from the hangars as she got up on the step. In a few more seconds...
...field of twelve colleges only M. I. T., Princeton, and Brown were able to better the record of the Crimson sailors. The leading skipper of the meet was an M. I. T., man, Runyan Colie, with Roger Wilcox '41 and James A. Roussmaniere '40 among the pacesetters...
...that night the Schodack circled the stricken Norwegian, Skipper Clifton Smith pouring out oil to smooth the way for another lifeboat. In the early morning one of the Smaragd's boats made it with seven men. Then the Schodack lowered a second boat, reached the Smaragd and took off the captain and his family, the rest of the crew, two pet dogs. Radioing his owners, the Cosmopolitan Shipping Co., Inc., Captain Smith was brief and businesslike. "It was tough going. . . . We will need a new lifeboat...
Married. Captain Angus Walters, 55, peppery skipper of the full-rigged Canadian schooner Bluenose, winner of the International Fishermen's Trophy (TIME, Nov. 7); and Mildred Butler, 28-year-old Nova Scotian; in Halifax. In Boston on his wedding trip, Captain Walters admitted that he was also trying to collect $6,000 in expense money because the race had been delayed. Said he: "The people of Canada will consider it an insult if payment isn't made soon...