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...life raft bumping the waves of the Windward Passage near Haiti looked no bigger than a cork when the Catalina patrol plane first sighted it; but when Ensign Francis E. Pinter eased his ship down to 200 ft., he could make out 17 people crowded upon it. To attempt a landing in such a choppy sea was a risky business for a plane that was toting a pair of depth charges, beaching gear, and a crew of eight, but Ensign Pinter figured that the plane had burned 300 gallons of gas since it left San Juan, Puerto Rico, was therefore...
...rough sea it was impossible to taxi alongside, so he moved up windward, drifted down on the raft. The 16 men and a woman on the raft were weak after 60 hours at sea without food or water. Distributing them aboard a Catalina built to accommodate only its crew took a lot of doing. Some were stowed in the bombing compartment, one on the deck between the pilots' seats; the woman was put in a bunk...
...Clair Bee took over basketball coaching at Brooklyn's Long Island University. L.I.U. basketball teams have always been excellent, sometimes terrific; they have won the Invitation Tournament twice and played two seasons undefeated. Bee's boys, with their tremendous local draw, have been a solid anchor to windward for Irish...
...coast. Seeing running lights inshore of the tanker and less than a quarter mile away, the lookout thought it was a fishing boat-but two torpedoes proved it was not. Sailor Forsdal was slammed to the deck and knocked out for a moment, but recovered and went to the windward side of the ship, realizing that the wind would blow the fire the other...
...Strategic Elements of Naval Warfare" fills a large auditorium in the St. Paul Science Museum. Twelve globe sections, seven and a half feet in diameter, are ranged around the auditorium walls, show phases of American naval strategy and problems, the major strategic bottlenecks of the world (Windward Passage, Panama, Gibraltar, Suez, Malay Straits, English Channel, Skagerrak, Kattegat). A huge revolving globe (Dr. Powell believes most people get wrong ideas of distance from looking at flat maps) shows the principal trade routes of the world. In the center of the auditorium, spread out on a huge table, are model ships...