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...week. Daughter of a widowed, peripatetic insurance salesman, she once played a rippling brook in a grade-school pageant, a few roles in high-school plays. Then, unable to type fast enough to pass her stenographer's tests, she put in two solid summers with the Wharf Theater players in Provincetown, Mass., thence sailed right on to Broadway...
...station wagons-with a driver and four first-aiders each, were parked behind the post office-quietly, not to alarm the public. Just in case the public did get alarmed, 50 auxiliary police ringed the hotel to keep unauthorized people out. Coast Guardsmen formed a cordon around the wharf, detoured mainstreet traffic that might interfere with operations...
Rescue Boat. Out on the wharf waited massive, balding Chairman Rosenthal and lean, nervy Chief Warden Hallett. Occasionally, when the breeze lifted the fog, they could see a medium-sized freighter at anchor a mile or so out in the harbor-the rescue ship. At about 8 o'clock, Dr. Daniel Hiebert, the Public Health Officer, went out to the ship in a Coast Guard boat, later called for Dr. Frank Cass to come out and lend a hand...
...first boat back landed 14 drenched, shuddering, shaken men, some of whom dropped to their knees to pray (in Spanish) when they felt the wharf's solid planking underfoot. Blankets hastily pulled from village beds an hour before were wrapped around them. "Ambulances" carried them to the hotel, where they were welcomed by canteen workers with hot soup, and by 35 home nurses, a contingent of registered nurses, and four male air-raid wardens drafted as orderlies. There were dry clothes and warm beds in private rooms...
...obvious in this first real test of the town's civilian defenses that its Committee on Public Safety could easily handle ten times as many casualties as it had received on the town wharf that day. Villagers were justly pleased with themselves. Said a village physician: "We did a good job. We didn't lose a single survivor-or a single first-aider." The regional director's comment on the local report sounded like Revolutionary days: "I can add no word to this. God bless the Commonwealth of Massachusetts...