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...roly-poly Governor Henry Whinna Nice was in the forward saloon with everyone else about 10 p. m. cheering a rowdy chorus-girl show, when there came four blasts of the ship's whistle. Instant later, passengers were knocked sprawling as the steel bow of the freighter Golden Harvest chopped ten feet into the State of Virginia's side a few yards aft of the merrymakers. No one was seriously hurt. Taken off four and a half hours later by a ferryboat, Governor Nice telegraphed his wife: "Don't wait up for me. Be home late. Boat...
Blue-eyed, sailor-suited Kelvin Arthur Rodgers, Australian 3-year-old, left a freighter at a New York dock last week for the last lap of a 9,000-mile voyage of life & death. Frisky, unconcerned, he carried in his right lung a 3-in. packing nail which he had gulped down 18 months ago. Unless it came out, Australian doctors agreed, Baby Rodgers' days were numbered. Twice they attempted to remove the nail without a Chevalier Jackson bronchoscope. Both attempts failing, they wrote to Dr. Jackson. He told them to send the child to Philadelphia, that the nail...
...tiny, forgotten participant in the Italo-Ethiopian War was the British freighter Santa Maria whose job it was to carry from Finland to French Somaliland two tons of TNT, 200 incendiary bombs, three airplanes and four machine guns for Emperor Haile Selassie's armies. The Santa Maria had got as far as Gibraltar when Haile Selassie fled his empire and the war was over. Captain P. P. Allen was told by the cargo's Finnish shippers, who had presumably already been paid for it, to land it somewhere and await further orders. He landed it at Tangier...
Last week Belgium was added to the countries that considered the Santa Maria's load a hot potato. The freighter headed south, supposedly bound for Arabia and China. But the shippers had been busy. The Santa Maria turned about, met a Belgian barge on the high seas, unloaded TNT and incendiary bombs and then, with only a few innocent planes and machine guns, once more sailed up the Thames and put in at East London's Silvertown. Once more Captain Allen pleaded his case in vain before London port authorities, left for Spain with a cargo of sugar...
...newly-married wife went to Patagonia on their honeymoon. She had been there before, had heard tales of an English settler far in the interior who might be good copy for a book. Getting to Patagonia was exciting in itself. They were the only passengers on the freighter that took them from Los Angeles down around South America, and after riding out a hurricane, through the sinister Straits of Magellan. Once ashore, they had a long, hard trip by truck and horseback to get to the mountain sheep-ranch they were heading for, almost on the border between Argentina...