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Haul Away. Off Newport, R.I., Fishing Captain Lars Fahlen dragged a net across the ocean bottom, suddenly found his 65-ft. boat going full speed astern and had to chop his net cable to save his craft, learned later that he had almost been caught by the U.S. submarine Flying Fish...
Overhead, under a leaden sky, three flights of F9F Panther jets wheeled around the Princeton in perfect formation. Over bull horns on the flight deck came the air officer's command: "White flag, land planes." The landing signal officer, from his screened perch astern on the flight deck, guided the first plane in with two orange paddles. It sailed in, tailhook down, picked up an arresting wire and stopped. His hook released from the wire by a scurrying, green-jerseyed deck man, the pilot taxied his craft forward, folding its wings as he went. One by one, the blue...
Having been afloat in a lifejacket several miles astern of the Franklin at the time the photograph was made, I cannot say from personal knowledge that Captain Steichen did not make that photograph. I do remember that in talking with survivors of the Franklin photo lab ... they told me that the pictures from which this is a selection were made by enlisted photographers aboard the cruiser which came alongside...
Peruvian sailors watching the crazy craft under construction at Callao thought the six Scandinavians must be mad. The crude raft was made of balsa logs, the longest 45 ft. long, hauled from the Ecuadorian jungles and lashed together with ropes. A crude steering oar swung astern; a big, archaic square sail drooped drunkenly from the mast, and the cabin aft was a bamboo hut thatched with banana leaves...
...Herbert L. Seward might be. In his office in Strathcona Hall stood the engine-room telegraphs that had once relayed orders from the bridge of the S.S. Leviathan. If the professor was going to class, he rang up "Full Speed Ahead." "Dead Slow" meant out to lunch; "Full Speed Astern" meant a faculty meeting. At the end of each day the professor signaled "Finished Engines...