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...Lafayette lay on her side like a dead whale, belly exposed, in the dirty ice mush of her slip in the Hudson River. Snow fell gently on the mammoth, fire-scarred hulk. Thousands of New Yorkers trooped to the waterfront to stare at her. She was a heartbreaking sight...
...surface, pouring shells at the island. Already two tankers in the harbor were on fire; flaming oil spread over the water. Said Photographer White: "The harbor scene was like a raging forest fire right in your own front yard. . . . The blaze was shooting up high over the waterfront. . . . I could see the decks of [one] ship as a mass of flames...
Last week Attorney General Francis Biddle marked off 88 coastal areas from which all enemy aliens will be evacuated by Feb. 24. Forbidden territory so far includes San Francisco's waterfront, where 1,500 alien fishermen keep their boats; all lighthouses, radio and power stations, dams, airports, defense plants; 17 truck-farming districts where Japs for years have grown winter fruits and vegetables for U.S.tables...
Giuseppe Di Maggio, 67, father of Ball players Joe, Dominic, Vince, was officially barred from Son Joe's waterfront restaurant, only a few hundred yards from the Di Maggio home. Reason: the restaurant stands in a defense zone, and unnaturalized Papa Giuseppe is classed as an "enemy alien...
Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia found time enough between jobs to dash to a waterfront fire in zero weather, got both cheeks frostbitten, departed smeared with salve...