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...bars rounded up the 40 Turkish crewmen of the Raman, an aged (1917), U.S.-built tanker of 7,800 tons which had found its way into Mardin's small merchant fleet. Five of the Turks sidled on to a German tugboat lashed alongside the Raman, and kept the tug's nightwatchman busy with a merry prattle in Turkish and gifts of Turkish cigarettes. The rest boarded the Raman and fired up her wheezy engines. Within minutes, the tanker edged away from the dock, dragging the tug with her. "Achtung!" shouted the fuddled watchman. "Take it easy...
...Upward Tug. In Washington, Herbert Brownell's first big job is to raise the Justice Department from the low estate it reached under Harry Truman's Tom C. Clark and J. Howard McGrath.* The new Attorney General's first upward tug came in the selection of his assistants. Every one he has picked so far has the highest possible rating in Martindale-Hubbell, the official directory of the American bar. This is in sharp contrast with some of the department's recent personnel, e.g., former Deputy Attorney General Gus Vanech, who thrice failed to pass...
Even the gulls floating down the Hudson on chunks of ice seemed perplexed. In New York's great harbor, the hoarse voice of the tugboat was stilled by a tug-crew strike. Great ocean liners wallowed like harpooned whales. Without the usual fuming tugs to nudge them into their berths, the liners had to trust to luck and the seamanship of their skippers to make port. Some made distinctly unhappy landings, others got in safely but tensely, and only a skilled and daring few did the job as though it were nothing...
...divided into two rival camps yesterday in a convention eve tug-of-war over choosing a successor to the late CLO President Philip Murray...
...strides have been made toward realism. From France there is a lifelike bulldog which shakes its head, opens its mouth and growls at the tug of a leash ($16.95). Ohio's Doepke Manufacturers has a 19-in. fire engine made to scale from the famed La-France, with an extendible ladder and a hose that shoots a 20-ft. stream of water ($15.95). But the ultimate in realism was achieved by Chicago's Marlin Electric Co. It has a 4-lb., battery-powered toy lie detector, about the size of a small table radio...