Word: sydney
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When the U.S. aircraft carrier Bennington sailed majestically into Sydney Harbor to help Australia celebrate the anniversary of the Battle of the Coral Sea (May 7, 1942), its 2,970 officers and men were blithely unaware of one important matter: the University of Sydney would hold its annual Commemoration Day festivities, when students stage zany parades, pull off outlandish pranks, and badger citizens for donations to charity. Last week the proud Bennington became the victim of the most ignominious fate of all-capture by "pirates...
...quarters to collect money for a children's charity. Another group headed for the bridge, where a "good-natured bloke" turned on the public-address system so they could appeal for donations. Instead, "Pirate" Paul Lennon shouted: "Now hear this! The U.S.S. Bennington has been captured by Sydney University pirates!" Then, for good measure, says Lennon, "we turned two handles labeled 'Battle Alarm' and 'Chemical Warfare...
...felt obliged to announce that, of course, the United States Navy had known about the gag and simply played along. The men of the Bennington knew better, but decided to take their humiliation in stride. They collected $1,800 for the boys' charity and handed it over to Sydney's Lord Mayor Harry Jensen. His lordship was most grateful-and most sympathetic. After all, on the same day another group of students had seized him and whisked him off, a prisoner...
Pressure Point. In Sydney. Australia, Allan Inglis, 34, was fined $67 for illegal possession of a gun after visiting his estranged wife with two bottles of champagne and an unloaded pistol, hoping either to celebrate an immediate reconciliation or to scare her into...
Throughout all the assaults of doubting newsmen. Bush remained good-naturedly sure of himself. "Gee, at first I thought nothing of this," he said, as if surprised by the attention. "Queer things happen to us pilots. Why, down in Sydney, there was that business of the shark . . . but let's not go into that...