If the native boy had known what he was letting himself in for, he would probably have tossed the thing back into the sea. Instead, Klenre paddled over from his atoll in the Marshalls to U.S. Navy headquarters on Kwajalein, where the Lucite globe was opened and the message within (inscribed on a Raleigh cigaret wrapper) was read: "This is one of twelve plastic balls dropped in the Pacific Ocean off the Southern California coast December 2, 1945 by a contestant from the Raleigh cigaret People Are Funny program. The first person to wire the code word 'Raven' . . ....
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