Word: stanchions
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...conning tower?as the 487 circled to ram again. Now the submarine was almost entirely on the surface. The Little Fellow crashed into the Jap just forward of the conning tower, rolling the sub over. A wavering periscope scraped the side of the 487's hull, broke a stanchion on deck and came within an inch of decapitating Skipper Cornell...
...Britain well know that no naval duty is so anonymous or so hard as life on a destroyer. A destroyer does not roll; she snaps. She does not pitch; she gallops. Food and drink for days on end is taken with an arm and a leg locked around a stanchion...
...eights nearly crashed into a stanchion of Lars Anderson as its cox eagerly watched the tangle, and the motorboat following the race nearly ran down a laggard eight as it turned to come to the rescue...
Died. Donald van Rensselaer Freeman, 29, managing editor of Vanity Fair since 1926; of a fractured skull received when his roadster hit a traffic stanchion; in Mount Kisco, N. Y. He was responsible for the presence in the U. S. of the great German film Maedchen in Uniform (TIME, Oct. 3) for which he wrote the U. S. subtitles...
Died. William Fuld, 54, toy manufacturer of Baltimore, Md. Superintending the replacement of a flagpole on his factory's roof, he balanced himself by a stanchion, which tore loose. His most famed and fortunate toy invention was the Ouija board...