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From a distance, the DeLong platform looks like nothing else on land or sea. It stands serenely above the water while the waves slosh among its eight thick legs. Schools of fish and porpoises swim around it, and files of comic pelicans flap slowly past. All the time the drill is turning, biting into the rock thousands of feet below. If the platform must be moved, the barge shins slowly down its legs and pulls them out of the mud. A complete move takes less than a day, and costs less than moving a drill rig on land...
Gary was not thrown into show business on a sink-or-swim basis. His father's good friends and old employees, Bill Morrow and Murdo Mackenzie, are directing and writing the Gary Crosby Show; the announcer is veteran Ken Carpenter, a long time Bing sidekick, who remarked cheer fully that he was set for life "as long as I don't run out of Crosbys." Father Bing himself supplied a word of tactful advice ("Always be on time") and thoughtfully stayed away from the first recording session just in case he might make his son nervous...
...power. Their predecessors-the Greeks. Phoenicians and Cretans-went down to the sea by preference. For thousands of years their galleys and potbellied cargo ships plied the Mediterranean, generally sticking close to the shore, where they often sank in shallow water. The wrecks lie there still, while bright fish swim around their leaden anchors and mollusks drill holes in marble columns packed into their holds...
...filming Saturday will center about the PBH Kid's Day, when PBH will entertain children from the Boston area. The program includes a swim meet, tours of the University and nearby museums, a luncheon, and a bank concert. In addition, the children will be introduced to athletes Dick Button 2L and Dick Clasby '54 and to Dean Delmar Leighton...
Underdog Dave Hawkins learned a new kick in a few hours last week and used it to defeat the favorite in the butterfly final of the national AAU swim meet at Yale...