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There was no warning, just the explosion of the torpedo. As the sea poured in, the merchantman began to careen. Voices of people rose above the crashing of furniture, dishes and gear. The ship rolled over, spilling wreckage and humanity into the ocean...
Married. William Wyler, 34, cinema director (These Three, Dodsworth, Dead End, Jezebel), divorced husband of Cinemactress Margaret Sullavan; and Margaret Tallichet, 23-year-old onetime typist who was "discovered" by Carole Lombard, chosen to play Careen O'Hara (Scarlett's sister); at Lake Arrowhead, Calif...
...following year Harvard beat Yale 41-0. 41-0, just think of it! A kid named Eddie Mahan played a good game. Four times he plunged head first across the Yale goal line. Five times he swung his toe and a Stadium full watched the ball careen over the goal post for points after. Twenty-nine of Harvard's points were picked up by Mahan who was playing his last game...
Undisciplined, purposeless, irresponsible, the great names in "King Lehr" and the Gilded Age careen from vulgarity to greater vulgarity, while poseurs prey on ignorance and snobbishness, social climbers spend fortunes trying to get accepted. Elizabeth Drexel Lehr fell in love, waited until after her mother's death to plan her divorce. Then her lover died. Harry Lehr had quieted down, showed symptoms of acute melancholia before the War, which finally put an end to his way of life. He grew more & more morose; his mind slowly failed; he became panic-stricken at the thought of his despised wife...
...wife, Sands her brother. De Bernis, an old associate of Tom Leach's, was on his way to tell him of a plate fleet soon to sail for Spain. To withhold Leach from treachery, he withholds all information as to whence the fleet will sail, insists that Leach careen the Black Swan on a certain island's beach and scrape her bottom clean for the fast fight to come. On the island trouble brews. Leach makes goat's eyes at Priscilla, would murder de Bernis but for his men, who want a lick at that Spanish treasure...