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Special Bulletin (May 26): A new crisis developed late this afternoon in connection with the pump diggings, when a multi-ton truck came blundering along the road and caused the entire excavation to cave...
Magill died of pneumonia, but on the ninth day of their entombment, last week Dr. Robertson and Scadding heard the welcome sound of picks chipping a hole to freedom. Ten days after the cave-in, both men were brought to the surface...
...surface a giant clamshell crane, dynamite, a steam shovel, squads of digging miners, burrowed from four different angles on the thin chance that the trapped men might still live. A pipe was forced into the mine tomb and, six days after the cave-in, Dr. Robertson's voice cried faintly, "Hello. We are all right." All, however, were suffering from shock, starvation, exposure. Brandy, chocolate, soup, Bi-so-dol, oilskins, flashlights and candles were dropped down the 5-in. pipe. Then a new menace appeared when water began flooding the wrecked mine. With freedom or drowning a matter...
...American Mercury" announces that Leavitt Howard '36, of Hingham, Massachusetts has received Honorable Mention in "The Mercury's" $500 prize essay contest, in which undergraduates throughout the nation were asked to submit their ideas on the present state of the Union. The winning essay was written by Francis Cave, an undergraduate at the University of Maryland...
...gardener. The lovers are banished from Wang's house, whereupon the narrative is briefly clouded by the raven wing of grief. Hsieh is called off to the wars in the Western Regions and, like a Chinese Penelope, Precious Stream puts in the next 18 years waiting in a cave for him to return. When he does, the Wang family is made to eat humble pie and husband & wife live happily ever after. As with The Yellow Jacket a generation ago and the Mei Lan-fang repertory in 1930, Lady Precious Stream is supposed to charm U. S. spectators...