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...Rescue. In the early afternoon, with the storm still rising and his ship sodden under his feet, Captain Carlsen sent an SOS: ENCOUNTERING SEVERE HURRICANE . . . SITUATION GRAVE . . . HAVE 30 DEGREE LIST AND JUST DRIFTING . . . At nightfall things got worse; the pig iron in the holds shifted and the ship rolled to port again as if she were going completely over. She hung, listing now at 60 degrees; at times the deck was almost perpendicular. The captain clawed his way among his ten passengers (five women, a boy, four men) with a bottle of brandy, reassured them, had them covered with...
Stripes & Bars. But he was wide awake and watchful the following day when he inspected the tragic destruction in the Armourdale, Argentine and Central Industrial districts of Kansas City, Kans. still sodden and stinking from the silt and wreckage of July's flood. Later, with Missouri's Governor Forrest Smith, he talked over ways & means of providing more federal aid for thousands of homeless and impoverished flood victims. Then, before the Independence whisked him back to Washington, he was off to the dedication of a new armory in Kansas City, where he dropped a fascinating footnote...
...years had France seen such rain. Farmers slogged stolidly out to their fields to harvest the sodden crops, mill the grain and send it on its way. In little (pop. 4,400) Pont-Saint-Esprit, perched on a bluff along the River Rhone in southern France, the townspeople sat glumly in their bistros sipping wine, watching the swollen river slip past the medieval bridge which gives the town its name...
...with the field dressing over his eyes was shifted from his stretcher to an ambulance for another stage of his painful journey from Korea. A blond youngster with a gaping hole in his right thigh was carried under the spotlight. The chaplain tugged gently at the soldier's sodden combat boots and blood-soaked trousers and joked with him about rotation. "I nearly had my time in, Father," the boy said. "I guess I get out a little early." He shivered and flinched as the artillery fired another salvo...
Water-Borne Assault. Soon the whole 7th Regiment was in the fight. The sodden weather barred air support. Colonel Harris' most useful field pieces - 105-mm. howitzers-could not get up the muddy road. A bulldozer at work widening the road for six-by-six trucks got stuck, which meant that ammunition had to come up by jeep. Colonel Harris decided to launch an amphibious assault...