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...well drunk. Sid Sawyer was modeled after Sam's own brother Henry. "Injun Joe," sometimes known as "Injun Aleck," was a drifter from Oklahoma who, according to rumor, had once "somehow lost his interest" in his mother, and hanged her. There really was a cave downriver from Hannibal, too, and Sam himself was once lost in it with a young lady...
...nation's parcel post system; in Cumberland, Md. When he was nearly nine, Lewis shouldered a miniature pick & shovel, followed his father down a mine shaft to earn $10 a month. He was 17 before he learned to write, was once pulled out of a mine cave-in, half dead, with a physics book in his pocket. In 1910 Lewis was elected to Congress, identified himself as a left-wing Democrat. In 1935 he wrote the old-age pension law (although its sponsor, North Carolina's Representative Doughton, got the credit...
...jerk of the 120-ft. nylon rope brought Dave up short, painfully bruising and wrenching his ribs, and dragged Jim, ax and all, to within a foot of the brink. An hour later, Dave dragged himself back up. He and Jim found a cave in a crevasse and spent the night there. The feet of both were frostbitten, Dave's so badly that when he rapped them with his knuckles "the sound was hollow and wooden...
...three days to 18,500 ft. and pitched a tent for their high camp. At that rarefied height, the temperature, in the bright sunlight, 122° F.; twelve hours later it fell to -15°. Nevertheless, the climbers toiled on next day, up another 1,300 ft. to a cave. The following morning, as the sun rose out of the steaming Amazonian jungles far to the east, they moved...
...carving and went back to pen & ink drawings with single-minded attention. Outside art, his main pleasures are horseback riding and, latterly, whippeting around the Tuscan hills in a Fiat. Once during the war, Carrara was shelled and his family hid out for two months in a hillside cave. Paolo spent his time profitably, carving pictures on the walls, caveman style...