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...Philadelphia one day last week an animal-lover spied a small, black mongrel dog adrift on an ice cake in the Delaware River. He did not know how the dog had come there, but he knew how to get it off. That was what Philadelphia's Harbor Patrol was for. Four miles downstream the police boat Blankenburg, with 17 patrolmen aboard, put out to the rescue. An hour's churning through the ice-choked river brought it abreast of the derelict. Glowing with humane sentiments, Patrolman Edward Corliss crawled out on the ice. The dog snapped and snarled...
...shows him every inch a hero. The transformation is made plausible because this time the narrator is one of Bligh's most loyal followers. When at dawn on April 28, 1789, two-thirds of the Bounty's crew mutinied and put Captain Bligh and 18 men adrift in a ship's boat, with no firearms and scant provisions, it looked like the end for them. Their problem was to get to the nearest European settlement, in Java, 3,600 miles away. Prevailing easterly winds made a return to Tahiti impossible. The boat was only 23 feet long...
...unsophisticated, stage-struck little girl from Vermont who comes to New York to become a famous actress--just like that. This doesn't sound like a very promising beginning; as a matter of fact it sounds like the start of half a dozen well-worn situations:--virginity adrift on Forty-Second Street; the smooth seducer with moustache; then rescue by a whisker...
...Baltimore several cans of hydrocyanic gas, used by the quarantine station to fumigate ships, were washed adrift from a storehouse. Officials warned that instant death awaited any salvager who opened them...
...middle of a closely-packed carriage. More than once, when travelling 'third' I have had to tight my way out, in a condition approaching frenzy. ..." When the student leaves the indubitable tact of claustrophobia's existence and begins to look for cause & cure, he finds himself adrift in theory. In a letter to the Times, Dr. Harry Campbell, veteran British neurologist, spoke for the older school when he declared that claustrophobia is simply the morbid expression of a universal animal instinct to avoid capture. Dr. W. Stephenson, University of London psychologist, tartly retorted through the Times that...