Word: cowart
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sailor Charles ("Buddy") Cowart, 19, refused to tell the Press how he dangled for two hours on a rope beneath the wind-tossed U. S. S. Akron over Camp Kearny, Calif, unless the Press would pay him (TIME, May 23). But in Tulsa, Okla. last week Sailor Cowart could not resist spinning a yarn for the home folks. He described how he and two mates of the ground crew were jerked high into the air when the airship broke her moorings...
...crowd watched the Akron rise to 2,000 ft. with the one man still dangling beneath her. The heat grew oppressive. A yell went up as the lump at the end of the cable showed life. Sailor Charles ("Bud") Cowart had straddled a toggle above the ring at the end of the cable, was taking two bowline hitches about his waist. Several times' Lieut. Commander Rosendahl maneuvered the tossing ship toward earth, but fearing that Sailor Cowart would be bashed to death, soared again. Firemen stretched nets to try to catch him if he fell...
...Caterpillar Club. Airship men who have dangled on ropes might call themselves Spiders. After two hours the lump at the end of the Akron's cable began to rise slowly spider-wise, toward a port in the forward part of the lifeless, floating ship. As the cable shortened Sailor Cowart's oscillations grew more violent. When he disappeared into the port, the crowd murmured with relief but no one cheered...
Aboard the ship Sailor Cowart spurned spirits of ammonia. Said he: "Gimme something to eat." He set off immediately on a curiosity tour of the Akron. After the ship was successfully moored later that evening, Sailor Cowart stubbornly refused to tell his story to reporters, despite the friendly coaxing of Commander Rosendahl. A welterweight boxer out for the All-Navy championship, he said: "I'll have to see my manager before I talk." His manager sold the story to the highest bidder, Hearst's Universal Service...