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...liner Rex have to stop at Quarantine for medical inspection since the granting eight months ago of "radio pratique" to certain liners entering New York harbor (TIME. Sept. 6). It stopped there last week, however, to let two moon-faced gentlemen climb down a gangplank to a Coast Guard cutter. The cutter snaked up the river to a Fire Department pier. Here the chubby passengers, Cinema Producer Hal Roach and Dictator's Son Vittorio Mussolini, were transferred to an earnest knot of alien squad members, policemen. State Department and Italian Embassy officials, and rushed cross town to the Ritz...
...play's situation entangles a boy in love with boats and a lady Ph.D. immersed in case histories. Christine Lawrence, virgin psychologist (Doris Daiton), meets young Skipper Hayden Chase (Henry Fonda), who distrusts learning and takes out fishing parties on the cutter which he bought after leaving Dartmouth. Despite the disparity of their interests, they fall in love, spending a night together when he jams his boat on a convenient sand bar. Love triumphs temporarily when Hayden takes a job in the city and marriage follows. Then their incompatibility leads them through quarrels to the brink of divorce...
...Colorado" spent most of its time refueling four destroyers, two airplanes, the coast guard cutter "Itasca," and the Navy mine sweeper which was supposed to have refueled the aviators at Howland Island. Captain William Fridell soon tired of this menial task, however, and put for the phoenix Islands, nearly 300 miles south of the equator. The captain figured that winds and current would have driven the lost pair south...
...Angeles and while he was there in one of the cheaper houses he had for a neighbor an oil man whom I had to contact . . . and he told the oil man . . . that he ... was smuggling in Chinese, that they had been caught up with ... by a U. S. cutter and had to sink the boat with the Chinese and that he afterward went to Mr. Fleishhacker and got a lot of money...
...dispute had been allowed to start. Well aware that a group of high-spirited young celebrities returning from abroad might talk unwisely to reporters, the Professional Golfers Association dispatched two representatives to round up the players before they saw the Press. The P. G. A. representatives missed the cutter which took reporters down the bay to meet the boat. Trying frantically to close the incident, the P. G. A. last week talked about sending a publicity man with the next U. S. Ryder Cup team, if there...