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...outfits in rest areas were sleeping under canvas (sometimes leaky under the heavy rains, but still a luxury), and their meals-which included large quantities of fresh fruit and vegetables, eggs and ice cream-were elegantly laid out on tables fashioned from packing cases. They played baseball and basketball, swam in the rivers, flocked at night to movies, risked their payday money in poker and crap games. Stones glistening with new whitewash lined driveways at command posts which no longer had to be moved every few days...
...Star-Times's 48-man staff worked around the clock on the big story. When the Star needed a detail map to show the destruction of the industrial district, Cub Reporter Bob Beason went into the water and waded and swam from building to building to assess damage. Reporter Bill Blair and Photographer Bob Youker persuaded a passing Army amphibious truck to ferry them about, were arrested for their enterprise; their soldier-chauffeur and truck were AWOL from Fort Leavenworth...
...sent out an amphibious landing force, only to see it wiped out from the air. An air-force bomb caught the Sri Ayuthia. Fire broke out on board and the ship began to list. Premier Phibun took to the water along with his captors, and, flanked by navy men, swam to shore and safety...
Florence Chadwlck, 32, who set a new women's record last year when she swam the English Channel in 13 hrs. 20 min., arrived in Dover to start training for another try. This time she hoped to be the first woman to do it the hard way, from Dover to Cap Gris...
Bubba Tongay, 5, and his sister Kathy, 4, have been knocking off long-distance swimming records ever since they were old enough (ten months) to dog-paddle. Back home in Miami, the wide-shouldered, sun-scorched Tongay kids swim seven miles before breakfast every morning. Last year Bubba swam 22 miles down the Mississippi. The kids' father and trainer, ex-Coast Guardsman Russell Tongay, had an extraordinary plan: he wanted the children to swim the ig-mile English Channel and maybe win some of the $19,600 prize money offered by the London Daily Mail...