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Long Henry was a 375-ft.-talI marine crane, the towering pride of Kiel Harbor, when the victorious British appropriated him in 1945. For five years, Long Henry played his robust, uncomplaining part in cleaning up bomb-battered Kiel. This year, the British sold him to the French for 1,500,000 marks...
When French engineers turned up at Kiel to collect the 5,000-ton crane, they decided to save the cost of dismantling Long Henry for transport by towing him by sea to France. German skippers who know the treacherous sea route around the Danish peninsula pronounced the scheme "suicidal," but the Frenchmen thought they knew better. They hawsered four tugs to Long Henry, chugged away with him into the Kattegat Straits between Denmark and Norway. Off the northern tip of Denmark, a fierce storm blew up; Long Henry began to wallow like a waterlogged dinosaur. For an instant his long...
...Louis' Kiel Auditorium-where 12,000 seats were only two-thirds taken-Harry Truman made his one avowedly political speech of the campaign. The party put up $100,000 to broadcast it over 1,200 radio and 72 television stations...
...found it hard to raise the money. He settled for Rotterdam. Three weeks ago, with a crew of 15 stalwart young Swedish tram conductors, miners, plumbers, bakers and clerks to man the oars, the 80-foot Lusty Snake set off across the Baltic for the Kiel Canal...
...seamen of Ystad and Tralleborg shook their heads as the frail craft headed southwest. "They'll never clear a storm," they murmured. Eight days later the Lusty Snake passed through the Kiel Canal into the North Sea. Young Navigator Börje Persson, 26, who had just got his master's papers and quit his job on a trawler to join the voyagers, set the course for Rotterdam...