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...damp, disused, musty wharf shed the 50 men stood and sat, impatient, griped, chilled: newsmen, cameramen, radiomen, technicians, bottleholders. They had been waiting a long time-two weeks at Swampscott, Mass., two days at Rockland, Me. They were angry as a bunch of bears with sore haunches. They were the reception committee for Franklin Roosevelt, returning from the greatest fishing trip that any President of the U.S. had ever undertaken...
Boats pushed out into the dungeon fog, blew horns, waited in vain for Skipper Paul's reply. From Monhegan Island and all Casco Bay the searchers sent the same answer: no trace. A throng of weeping kinfolk, scared children gathered at Harpswell wharf. Hours later, a message came from Westpoint that the Don had put in there at 11 a.m. to buy lobsters, then left for Monhegan...
...years of baseball, few feats have caused such nationwide todo. Ever since it became apparent that the big Italian from San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf was approaching a record that had eluded Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig and other great batsmen, Big Joe's hits have been the biggest news in U.S. sport. Radio programs were interrupted for Di Maggio bulletins. Crowds jammed the ball parks where he played. Three days before, when he broke the modern record of 41, set by George Sisler in 1922, 31,000 parboiled fans crammed into Washington...
...Shaved, dressed in khaki shirts and trousers, with money to spend, the men piled ashore, pushed aside photographers and interviewers as they set out to fulfill long-considered plans. One man had sworn he would get the autograph of the first woman he saw. But she sailed past the wharf in an automobile, would not stop. Their plans were not all alike...
Honolulu citizens have long declared that something ought to be done. Last week something was. At the fisherman's wharf, U. S. customs officers seized ten alien-owned fishing craft, announced that they would grab 70 more when they got in from sea. Reason: fraudulent registration...