Word: cabined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Career: Born in a log cabin, he lost his father at the age of three. His mother, an illiterate woman, carried him to Campbell, Minn, at the age of six. At nine he went to work on the streets. At twelve he could neither read nor write. A corner brawl caught the attention of a passing schoolteacher who was impressed by the lad's ferocity and ignorance, advised education. He entered school, moving from town to town with his toiling mother, gathered and sold junk to make ends meet. He put himself through the University of Minnesota...
...recapture their former lives, to wander back to wives and children. This situation is complicated for Semion and Ivan, fast friends, because they both love a beautiful Siberian, Natascha. Semion has mated with her for eight years; for five of those years Ivan, living in the same cabin, has manfully choked his desire. But when freedom comes, no such suppression is possible. Ivan confesses his passion to Semion, and they spend their last night together in a friendly vigil, neither approaching Natascha's bed. Next day, when each discovers that the other intends to remain with the girl...
Married. George Newell Armsby, 53, financier (Bancamerica-Blair Corp., California Packing Corp.); and Colette Touzeau, 36, daughter of Henri Touzeau, onetime French master at Eton College, England; in Glendale, Calif. The honeymoon : in Cineman Cecil Blount De Mille's mountain cabin...
...publicity stunts of Capt. Frank Hawks, superintendent of aviation for Texas Co. Last June he set the coast-to-coast record in two swoops of his Lockheed Air Express. Last week he set out (with special permission from the Department of Commerce) to cross the continent in a cabin glider towed at the end of a 300-ft. rope behind a power plane. First day he was towed 400 mi., from San Diego to Tucson, with a stop at Yuma and Phoenix. At such way stations he unhooked his "car"' from its "locomotive" and coasted to earth, demonstrating...
...steamship, went out to it in a canoe, clambered aboard. LoBagola wandered down to the engine room. When the warning siren blew, it so terrified the little black boys on deck that they jumped over the rail, were all drowned or killed by sharks. LoBagola, locked in a cabin, was carried to Scotland, a savage little animal who' would not wear clothes, bit people who tried to dress him. At Glasgow he ran down the gangplank, still stark naked, drew a crowd, was rescued and taken home by a kindly Scotsman. In this man's family LoBagola stayed...