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Damaged at a pier in Suez lay the Arkansan (Sept. 11). Unscathed, somewhere in the Atlantic, was the U.S. destroyer Greer, which a Nazi submarine had tried several times, unsuccessfully, to torpedo...
...hundred miles southwest of Reykjavik, U.S.S. Greer knifed through the cold and grey Atlantic. As on every U.S. warship in those waters her men were standing special watches, with crews at guns, depth-charge and torpedo stations. The men of the Greer were going through the fatiguing routine of taking the mail to Iceland...
...white wake of a torpedo was streaking toward the ship...
...grace of God the Greer was not hit. Had a torpedo struck her fragile steel plates (just thick enough to keep fish out) the Greer, commanded by Lieut. Commander Laurence H. Frost, might have been sunk without a trace. But already she was racing up the torpedo tracks, her mechanical ears searching for the submarine. When they indicated that the U-boat was directly underneath, depth charges began to drop overboard from the Greer. The U.S. Navy was engaged...
...projecting end of the kangaroo is struck with a sharp downward chop to send it jumping as in tiddlywinks. A set costs $12.50. There are four different-shaped kangaroos: the Turtle (for distance), the Speeder (for an accurate second shot), the Flash (to get over a high obstacle), the Torpedo (for a stop-dead approach or putt). Players carry their kangaroos in a canvas pouch not unlike a carpenter's apron...