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Colonel Blimp (Roger Livesey, Debo rah Kerr, Anton Walbrook ; TIME, April...
...LEWIS C. DEBO News Editor Creston News Advertiser...
...Debo who had left his South Pearl Street home that morning without shaving. On a damp ladder rung, his foot slipped. Down the manhole vanished his dark curly head. There was a muffled splash...
...Then he saw a head bobbing toward him through the darkness. Gripping the bottom of the ladder with one hand, with the other he grabbed a man's limp body just before the filthy current swept into a 75-ft. down-drain. A rope pulled the half-conscious Debo up through the Grand Street manhole, 800 ft. from his starting point. Hospitalized, John Debo told his story...
Rare are sewer accidents like John Debo's. In 1929 in Manhattan an 8-year-old boy, playing carelessly about subway construction in East 53rd Street, tumbled into a sewer flowing to the East River three blocks away. Hearing the alarm, members of the Red Wing Boat Club, famed for its corpse recoveries, scurried to the sewer outlet at 49th Street, yanked the blubbering moppet out alive as he was being poured into the river...