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...picture has it, the U.S. Frigate Essex, on which young Lieut. Farragut (Scott Brady) served, was disguised as a pirate craft to trap the buccaneers. On board the Essex, Farragut seems to have spent as much time scrapping with hardhearted Commander David Porter (Jeff Chandler)-actually his best friend-as he did fighting the pirates. Also aboard, it appears, was a beautiful Portuguese countess (Suzan Ball) who is nowhere mentioned in maritime annals...
Counterattack. In Syracuse, N.Y., Patrolman Nicholas Margiasso set up an electric timing device on a busy thoroughfare to trap speeding motorists, wondered why all cars passed cautiously, until he found two small boys a block away with signs: "Danger. Slow down. Police ahead...
...playing a painstaking, precise game that brought, not applause, but "Gee, gee, gee" from the gallery. Soon he was two up. Then on the 16th hole (468 yds.), Jack sent his second shot into the light rough just off the green; Mengert's sailed into a sand trap. Westland arched his approach to within a scant yard of the cup. Mengert exploded out, then overputted the hole. Jack sank his short one. That...
Line & Sinker. In Madison, Wis., when Herbert C. Fischer tried to outsmart a persistent burglar by rigging up a camera trap to catch him in the act, the burglar, on his next visit, ignored the bait ($2, a ring and a watch), made off with the $150 camera...
Backbencher Up. "I beg the government," said bouncy Backbencher Robert Boothby, who is a Tory star on TV political panels, "to stop talking about alerts and alarms and grave situations and trap doors and new presentations; and then, when the markets of the world have been shaken and everybody is in a state of tension and the House of Commons is assembled for a great economic debate . . . nothing very much happens. Send for us when you really have got something...