Word: algonquin
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...paneled lobby of Manhattan's Algonquin Hotel, popular theatrical rendezvous, Manager Frank Case last week hung the photographs of eleven Broadway dramacritics. Since the hotel is also frequented by actors, Mr. Case announced that he had posted a 24-hour guard over the pictures, had framed them under shatterproof glass...
...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's story got better & better. Not only the stricken ship...