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Over two months ago an old man watched ship reporters interviewing celebrities on the deck of a boat. He himself was not annoyed by their yapping curiosity. When he stepped into the streets of Manhattan, he made no comments on the U. S. women, the tall buildings or the roaring subways but looked with intense interest at two large dappled-greys who were tugging a truck wagon along the cobbles of the waterfront avenue...
After five hours of scouring the sea for help, they sighted the Dutch tanker, S. S. Barendrecht, bound from the Azores to Rotterdam. Circling low they dropped a message on the ship's deck. "How FAR ARE WE FROM LAND AND WHICH WAY?"?Ruth Elder...
...deck, in large letters, Capt. Goos painted the answer: "true south, 40 west, 360 miles, Terceira, Azores...
...funnels, horns, bells, squealers, filled the morning with a troublesome cacophony. Suddenly one bargee shook his fist: "It's that lazy bum Walker," the bargee said, "now he's back!" "Yes, the loafer," said the other bargee. Then both bargees moved into a shady place on the deck, for it was a hot September forenoon, and returned to somnolence...
Handwriting. Newspapers last week printed the last words of Paul Redfern, lost flyer to Brazil. In scratchy manuscript, dropped to the deck of the steamer Christian Krogh, the facsimile read: "Point ship to nearest land, wave flag or handkerchief once for each 100 miles. Thanks, Redfern...