Word: nantucket
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pollak, in a letter to the Mirror, declares that he was particularly anxious to correct that part of the fake story which said "he had to be fished out of the pool," since he learned to swim at Nantucket,"... and I hate to think of losing this skill, even in a cooked-up news item...
...note: A thought For This Week from the Nantucket Inquirer and Mirror of March 1, 1940; page...
...blustery night last week Captain Brown called the Coast Guard again. He said he had heard fragments of a distress call from a steamer somewhere between Cross Rip Light and Nantucket. From Captain Brown, that was all the Coast Guard needed. Gay Head launched its surf boats. The destroyer Breckinridge steamed in from neutrality patrol, the cut ters General Greene, Algonquin, George W. Campbell plunged for the scene. Crews from Coskata and Maddaket stations joined Gay Head's in the search. Soon reporters from all over the North Atlantic coast were calling Captain Brown on the telephone. Captain Brown...
...night long and into the morning, the rescue craft searched Nantucket Sound, but no ship could they find in distress. At 5 a. m. two Massachusetts State Troopers visited Captain Brown with a warrant, locked him up for drunkenness, despite his stout assertion that he was stone sober, that there wasn't a drop in the house. Later that morning, at Edgartown District Court, a magistrate believed the cops, convicted Captain Brown. The captain took the rap like a good soldier, but he shook his head soberly. "I tell you, I heard it," he insisted. "I would...