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...falsetto sequel to the Squalus and Thetis tragedies occurred last week on Lake Michigan. Just off Chicago's Jackson Park, a submarine, wallowing on the surface, got in trouble. In 15 minutes the entire crew was rescued. The entire crew consisted of one Barney Connett, 34, a gasoline service station manager by vocation, an inventor and mechanic in his spare time.' Rescue apparatus: a speed boat and a lasso...
...Barney Connett's homemade, one-man pigboat is twelve feet long, weighs 1,000 pounds, was put together with automobile parts and miscellaneous junk at a cost of $4,000, is powered by a battery-driven electric motor. Last autumn, lying on his belly in his submerged sub, Barney Connett bored his way from Michigan City to Chicago (63 miles) in 10 hrs. 30 min. Last week he was testing a two-way radio with two stations on shore. His motor brushes burned out, his craft stalled. "Send out a boat!" radioed Submariner Connett. "Send out a boat before...
...England for their honeymoon went the heaviest married couple in the world: Australia's Barney Worth, 26, 686 Ibs. (waistline: 7 ft.), and Joy, 27, 420 Ibs. (waistline: over 6 ft.). Because Worth sprained his ankle on the voyage from Australia, he could not mount the ship's gangway at Boulogne, had to be hoisted aboard by derrick, unloaded the same way. Asked how he met his wife, Barney Worth replied: "She came into my butcher's shop for some meat. She bought a lot, and I liked her idea of an appetite. ... It was love...
Each House of the U. S. Congress has a chaplain; each pays its chaplain $1,680 a year. His only duties: a prayer at the beginning of each day's session. Senate Chaplain Ze Barney Thorne Phillips* and House Chaplain James Shera Montgomery each have one funny name and a sonorous baritone. Both are popular, convivial; both officiate at more Congressional funerals (no extra pay) than at weddings and baptisms. Chaplain Phillips, 63, Episcopalian, has held office for twelve years, conducts a Washington parish on the side. Chaplain Montgomery, 74, Methodist, has been on the job in the House...
...Phillips does not know why he is named Ze Barney, believes it is an old Norman surname of which he is the only living possessor...