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...evaluate an Evans performance. Shakespeare and Evans must seem almost synonymous to us, born too late for the Sotherns and Barrymores of a former day. He is Hamlet, and we accept him altogether -- if we sit in the first few rows, we even accept a fine spray with our soliloquy. And here we must do much the same; if Evans is perhaps too precious as the English king, he is at all times magnificent as the tragic poet of the later scenes...
...August day Publisher Just got word in Canada that the Bon Air Country Club was open for business and going full blast. Frank Just's cruiser made the spray fly across Lake Michigan, speeding home to Waukegan. Back at his desk, he sent the News-Sun's star feature writer, a girl reporter named Gladys Priddy, to see what was going on at the Country Club...
...missing, including the four nuns. Rescued passengers grimly described how those who had obeyed orders and gone to the saloon were trapped and burned, how a mother, clothes afire, leaped overboard, how a lifeboat was swamped by the seas. Some in scant night clothes died of exposure to icy spray and mistral...
Most unusual boat: a Higgins Industries, Inc. $17,000, 42-foot, Eureka model offshore pleasure cruiser. Eureka has a spoonbill bow with wood strips diverging downward to drive a cushion of spray under the hull. The tunnel-stern (fashioned after the belly of a sulphur-bottom whale) houses the screw, which is protected below by an extra heavy skeg, a solid metal, keel-like extension of the hull. Purpose: to enable the boat to crunch through driftwood, bounce over logs, hurdle narrow land spits, climb a beach and land a party dry-shod, wham up on a sloping concrete...
...Artillery shells filled with gravel which would spray muddy terrain in No Man's Land, make good footing for attacking infantry...