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...Nantasket Beach, Mass., a bather thought he saw his wife weltering in the surf, frantically summoned lifeguards, who plunged in, rescued a beer...
...blustery night last week Captain Brown called the Coast Guard again. He said he had heard fragments of a distress call from a steamer somewhere between Cross Rip Light and Nantucket. From Captain Brown, that was all the Coast Guard needed. Gay Head launched its surf boats. The destroyer Breckinridge steamed in from neutrality patrol, the cut ters General Greene, Algonquin, George W. Campbell plunged for the scene. Crews from Coskata and Maddaket stations joined Gay Head's in the search. Soon reporters from all over the North Atlantic coast were calling Captain Brown on the telephone. Captain Brown...
...distant relative of the striped bass is the copper-colored channel bass, a surf fish whose sportiness is confined to acting like a Japanese tumbler. Last week, around Cape Hatteras, No. 1 locale for channel bass, surfcasters were hopefully trying to beach one bigger than the world's record 74-pounder taken off Virginia...
Howling winds and the roar of surf pounding against cliffs hundreds of feet high,--such is the incidental music that surges through one of the cinematic masterpieces of out time, "The Edge of the World." That music sets the tempo, and in time with its thunderous beat marches a story of decaying society that is as grim as it is magnificent. That little group of people, on a desolate little island north of Scotland, fighting a losing battle against nature, themselves, and the breakdown of the immemorial traditions, becomes a living cell symbolic of a larger organism...
...Laughton have produced "The Beachcomber," their version of Somerset Maugham's "The Vessel of Wrath." Unique and distinctive in flavor, the picture shows the touch of original minds, unfettered with any great desire to produce a cash-register success. The pace is as slow and restful as South Sea surf. The comedy and tragedy of the plot are not, for the most part, dependent upon melodramatic action, but rather upon the subtle shades of acting. Yet the best acting, the best characterizations, are done by the supporting cast and not, strangely enough, by Mr. Laughton. His portrayal of Ginger...