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...frosty February day at the Century's turn, a gangling, 20-year-old Danish immigrant with $30 in his pocket ambled down a gangplank at Ellis Island. He was gawking at the New World's wonders when an impetuous deckhand bumped him from behind, let out a. roar: "Hurry up, you s- o-a b-!" After 37 years, Signius Wilhelm Poul Knudsen, known now as Vice President William S. Knudsen of General Motors, still likes to tell about this introduction to his adopted land, says that he accepted it forthwith as the national gospel. Chuckles...
...schooner, the Black Hawk, to sail around the world. But two months later the Black Hawk fetched up on a sandbar off Cat Island, in the Bahamas, and Skipper Joan went back to Manhattan to raise $300. With $1,000 and Count Ilya Tolstoy as a deckhand, undaunted Adventuress Lowell set off again. Said she: "Hell, yes, we're going on-rHit on around Cape Horn...
...garage mechanic, in his Class C outboard motorboat Miss Staten Island: the sixth annual 132¼ mi. Albany-to-New York race; in 3 hr. 15 min. 22 sec. Weeks beforehand, Feldhusen familiarized himself with the course-over which he had raced four times-by getting a job as deckhand on a river liner. More than half his time allowance-21 min.-was wasted when magneto trouble delayed him at the start. He overtook Cab Walier of Syracuse a mile from the end, finished 100 yards ahead, with severe bruises and cuts on his left knee, motor-deafness that lasted...
...fruitlessly questioned by police throughout the U. S. concerning the kidnapping, search narrowed down to persons surrounding the person who last saw Charles Augustus, namely, Nurse Gow. It was discovered that on the day of the abduction she had twice communicated by telephone with one Henry ("Red") Johnson, a deckhand in the summertime aboard the yacht of Thomas William Lamont, Morgan partner and good friend of Charles Augustus' late grandfather, Dwight Whitney Morrow. Henry Johnson and Nurse Gow had been friends for three years. He was promptly apprehended in Hartford, Conn, at the home of a brother. Authorities attached importance...
...Author, Thomas Craven, 42, is a red-haired Kansan, as unassuming in private conversation as he is dogmatic on the printed page. He has been a reporter in Denver, a schoolmaster in California and Porto Rico, a deckhand in the West Indies, an unsuccessful painter and poet. His essay, "Have Painters Minds?" in the American Mercury for March 1927, brought him into contact with such critical bigwigs as Britain's Roger Fry, France's Elie Faure. Today the entire U. S. art world pays attention...