The World Around Us #12

(August 1959)

["The Wonderful World of Fairy Tales"] (Table of Contents)

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Pinocchio; Gepetto; Thumbelina; The Three Bears; The Steadfast Tin Soldier

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Promo, with order form, for back issues of Classics Illustrated Junior (H.R.N. 561).

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The Illustrated Story of the Coast Guard (Table of Contents)

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Coast Guard vessel overtaking criminal vessel; introductory text.

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Coast Guard; educational; fact; law enforcement; rescue

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Four Last Words (Table of Contents)

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non-fiction; war

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Douglas A. Munro; US Marines

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Signalman First Class Munro uses landing craft to set Marines ashore at Guadalcanal. When they become trapped Munro leads 10 craft back, shielding the Marines from shore fire at they re-board. Munro is killed, earning the Congressional Medal of Honor.

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Coast Guard; Congressional Medal of Honor; educational; fact; Guadalcanal; rescue; war; World War II

Revenues and Rescues (Table of Contents)

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Alexander Hamilton; Alex A. Fraser; Coast Guard personnel

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Alexander Hamilton establishes the Revenue Marine Service to combat smuggling. Over time new duties are added, and a Government Lifesaving Service. In 1915 the two bodies merge to form the Coast Guard. Its mission continues to be diverse and dangerous.

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Coast Guard; educational; fact; rescue; smuggling; war

The Gallant Mare (Table of Contents)

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Dick Turpin; Tom King

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Highwayman Dick Turpin escapes London, pushing his horse Black Bess through four days of riding. When Black Bess expires, he waits by her side to be taken and executed.

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highwayman; horse

Send for Black Maria (Table of Contents)

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Black Maria; Alexander Hamilton; smugglers

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Teamster Black Maria beats off smugglers who try to steal her load of cannon intended for a revenue cutter. She later runs a boarding house, keeping it well-mannered with her fists. She assists the police, giving rise to the slang term for a police wagon.

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Coast Guard; educational; fact; smuggling

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Cutters at War (Table of Contents)

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John Adams; revenue cutter men; Coast Guardsmen

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Revenue service (later Coast Guard) men and vessels defend the country at sea and along the shore from the Quasi-War of 1798 through World War II, in which the Coast Guard operates the world's fifth biggest navy.

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Civil War; Coast Guard; educational; fact; navy; rescue; smuggling; war; World War I; World War II

The Mystery of Stonehenge (Table of Contents)

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Description of Stonehenge, and speculaton concerning its construction.

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archaeology; archeology; educational; England; fact; Stonehenge

The Matchbox Fleet (Table of Contents)

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R V McPhail

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Coast Guard personnel operate a fleet of 83-foot wooden rescue boats during the Normandy invasion, at great risk to themselves, saving 1,438 men.

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Coast Guard; educational; fact; Normandy; rescue; war; World War II

Training For Duty (Table of Contents)

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Coast Guard boots; Coast Guard instructors

Synopsis:

New Coast Guard enlistees go through 13 weeks of boot camp.

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Cape May; Coast Guard; Connecticut; educational; fact; New Jersey; New London; rescue

Sea Patrol (Table of Contents)

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Coast Guard personnel serve in multitudinous roles world-wide.

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Coast Guard; educational; fact; iceberg; polar; rescue; seaplane

The Fatal Fever (Table of Contents)

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Walter Reed; John Kissinger

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John Kissinger volunteers to be infected with yellow fever in order to test countermeasures. He survives but is debilitated; even so he fights to make his way in the world, and lives another 46 years.

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Cuba; educational; fact; medicine; yellow fever

Mayday! (Table of Contents)

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P.B. Cronk; seaplane pilot

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A seaplane airliner is forced to ditch near a Coast Guard weather ship. In a 24-hour struggle, Coast Guard personnel rescue all 69 passengers and crew.

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Coast Guard; educational; fact; rescue; seaplane

First Around the World (Table of Contents)

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Ferdinand Magellan

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Ferdinand Magellan and many others die along the way, but 18 of his crew complete the first circumnavigation of the globe in 1522.

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educational; explorer; fact

Six Subs in Twelve Hours (Table of Contents)

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J.A. Hirshfield

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The men of Coast Guard cutter "Campbell," on World War II convoy duty in the North Atlantic, engage six German u-boats in twelve hours.

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Coast Guard; educational; fact; submarine; u-boat; war; World War II

The Long March (Table of Contents)

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Francis Tuttle; Coast Guard personnel; Inuit guide

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Officers of the Coast Guard cutter "Bear," unable to break through pack ice, walk 2000 miles to Point Barrow, using dogs and herding reindeer. Their arrival relieves the desperate inhabitants and marooned seamen.

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Alaska; Coast Guard; educational; Eskimo; fact; Inuit; Point Barrow; reindeer; rescue

["Read the best in the world's finest juvenile publication"] (Table of Contents)

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Julius Caesar

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["Subscribe now! Today!"] (Table of Contents)

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