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...solitary mariners have followed in Slocum's track since then,* but none ever quite matched Slocum's achievement or his natural bent for storytelling: how he was chased by Moroccan pirates, rode out a tidal wave off the Patagonian coast, spent weeks beating his way through the Strait of Magellan and fighting off marauding Tierra del Fuego Indians. One night, glassy-eyed from lack of sleep and unable to stand watch any longer, he went below for rest-after sprinkling the deck with carpet tacks that had been brought along for just such an emergency. The barefooted Fuegians...
...give help and advice to those who ask for it. Not much is known of them, in France or elsewhere. While not secret, the work of the Missions is kept discreetly quiet, to avoid attracting undue attention from the Communists, and because their priests' unorthodox activities sometimes offend strait-laced Roman Catholics. But on no other front is the church working any harder to reclaim its lost sheep...
...soon moved from the radio bush league of Baltimore to an NBC staff announcer's job in Washington. One morning, speeding along Riggs Road to the Congressional Airport for practice at flying a glider, Godfrey had a head-on collision with a truck. He lay in a strait-jacket of bandages and casts for five months. For two years he could not bend his knees. He still walks with a slight limp...
...held off. Every day the small Nationalist air force (30 B-25s, P-51s and Mosquitoes) roars from the blacktopped airstrip at Haikow across Hainan Strait to the mainland. With field glasses from the roof of Haikow's Presbyterian Hospital, their bombs can be seen exploding on Luichow Peninsula where the Reds have been massing. The flyers also drop leaflets that urge Luichow fishermen, whose boats the Reds must commandeer, to sail away and avoid destruction rather than become "running dogs of Soviet Russia...
...Worldly Wiseman. It was John L. Lewis, during 1949, who proved that there is a limit to how much an industry can afford to pay for labor's security. In the years of fuel shortages, Lewis had strait-jacketed the coal operators with the highest industrial wages ($1.94 an hour) and the biggest pensions ($100 a month without federal aid) in industry. The operators could afford to pay the successive boosts because they could pass them on to consumers in higher prices. With the return of a competitive economy in 1949, all that changed...