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...death set off a chain reaction, and a furious tug of war between claimants to the $16,500,000 Patterson estate. When the news reached Washington over the A.P., Times-Herald executives moved fast. The seven who had inherited the paper already faced a fight for it; Countess Felicia Gizycka, Mrs. Patterson's daughter, was contesting the will, charging that it had been obtained by "fraud and deceit" as Cissie Patterson was not of "sound mind" when she drafted it. (There was also talk that the seven heirs were already fighting among themselves, too.) And Porter's personal...
Across the river in Manhattan, the Salvation Army also pondered the tug of television. Announced the Salvationists: if they could raise the money, a receiver would be installed in the Bowery Red Shield Club by World Series time, "so that men who are determined not to drink will not be lured into temptation and barrooms by television...
...result, at the company's annual meeting last spring, was a free-for-all brawl for control. The opposing factions tried to shout and push each other down, and held a tug of war with company records. They finally had to call a cop (to restore a modicum, of order) and go to court before the quarrel was temporarily settled in favor of the adamant management. But the management had had a bad scare...
...carriers, leaders, patrollers, defenders against aircraft-and hazards to smaller craft. Turning and twisting at high speed to avoid bombs, their roaring wash flooded or capsized scores of loaded dinghies, launches, yachts. Collision in the dark, too, "was a great worry," reported Mr. Lowe, dour skipper of the tug Simla...
...skipper set out. for Dunkirk with just "a series of courses penciled on the back of an envelope" and no notion of the holocaust that awaited him (personnel-ship Scotia passed a returning destroyer in mid-Channel, received from her merely the deadpan warning: "Windy off No. 6 buoy"). Tug Sun XI found herself ferrying to & fro for seven days, "like a sardine tin full up everywhere." Skipper Lightoller packed troops into his yacht Sundowner until, in his own expressive words, "I could feel her getting distinctly tender, so took no more...