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Belbenoit's third and fourth abortive escapes were financed with the money paid him by Authoress Blair Niles. It was seven years before he made his successful fifth escape. Again he got an Indian dugout, with five fellow-fugitives headed for the U. S. Fourteen days later, lucky to be only half dead, they reached Trinidad. The sympathetic British took them in, gave them a new boat, told them to push on. In Colombia, their boat wrecked, robbed by Indians, they skulked naked along the coast for a week, finally reached a Colombian town, where they were arrested. Belbenoit...
...tried four times to escape. The second time, he and eight companions got hold of an Indian dugout, headed into the Caribbean. When they ran into rough weather and it turned out that none of them knew navigation, they beached the boat, started back through dense jungle for the Penal Colony. A peg-legged convict killed a comrade for his can of condensed milk, and the leader in turn killed him. They roasted and ate his liver and his good left leg, of which Belbenoit confesses that one mouthful (which tasted like wild pig) was enough...
Build us, O build the singing tower! listeners, uncertain whether the proposed structure was to be in the nature of a bird sanctuary or a bombproof dugout, asked him what the poem should be called. Said Poet Auslander: "Why, I haven't given it a name. You name it. Name it anything you want...
...during spring training in Mexico last year. During the last six weeks of the season, when he was afflicted with an old gall bladder ailment, his familiar figure, dressed in street clothes, wearing a pre-War high hard collar, brandishing a score card, was absent from the Athletics' dugout. Last week Connie Mack did not eat or drink at his birthday party. He is on a diet of custards, milk and pudding...
...various Blood-Busterfields and other dugout officers fulminating in service clubs against the new order last week could not have the satisfaction of belittling their new Chief of Staff as an upstart. Lord Gort is a sixth Viscount, an old Harrovian, a member of the most exclusive club in the world, the Royal Yacht Squadron, and grandson of famed Robert Smith Surtees, author of the fox hunters' bible Handley Cross. It also happens that he is a professional soldier of great ability, holds the Victoria Cross, Britain's highest military decoration...