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...questionable" part occurs when a storm upsets the lifeboat. The only man with enough presence of mind to keep the lifeboat afloat is Walter Slezak, the Nazi submarine commander. He orders the others to bale out the water. After the boat has been righted, Slezak is in command. He rows the boat with apparent ease toward a Nazi carrier. While the others are weary and sick with hunger and thirst, Slezak remains fresh and gay, singing German songs...
...Lieut. Colonel Frederick Borth, former professor of the Louisiana State University. . . made the mild observation that in connection with the handling of toilet-paper rolls, the Army was shipping thousands of cubic feet of air space overseas daily. So why not bale toilet paper...
...lobby braves were led by William Garrard, of Greenwood, Miss., general manager of the Staple Cotton Cooperative Association. He protested that because December cotton futures were quoted at $9 a bale under March prices, the Exchange was "offering price destruction instead of price insurance." The Senate braves were led by cotton-loving Senator James Oliver Eastland of Mississippi, 38, colleague of the pecan-growers' friend Theodore ("The Man") Bilbo. "Cotton Jim" Eastland proposed that Congress investigate the Exchange because "certain big interests are rigging the market...
Jimmie recalls endless gin, playing variations on Tea for Two for days on end, jamming at Harlem's Rhythm Club with youthful Duke Ellington, Art Tatum and Fats Waller, writing a bale of tunes for Broadway producers. He was one of the first jazzmen to go on the air. ("In those days we never got paid-just pats on the back and promises. . . .") By the end of the '203, Jimmie's health had more holes than a piano roll, and he was ready for what he calls his "stormy days...
...Library of Congress asked Gertrude Atherton, 85, rejuvenated novelist (Black Oxen, 38 other books), for a bale of her manuscripts. She sent them...