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...dawn the blazing Morro Castle was surrounded by rescue ships, the great three-funnelled Monarch of Bermuda, the coastwise steamer City of Savannah and the freighter Andrea F. Luckenbach, one of whose officers in a small boat grabbed young Phelps, dragged him to safety. Contorted faces appeared at cabin portholes, trapped, staring out from the red-hot plates. Some cursed and raved. In his own little private hell, one man seemed to smile and wave his hand in farewell...
...Leningrad last March, landed last week at Wrangel Island, a bleak scrap of land in the Arctic Ocean, 85 miles from the northeast coast of Siberia. There for five long years six Russian meteorologists, their families and assistants, 44 souls all told, have lived in isolation. Last year the freighter Chelyuskin, commanded by hardy, hairy Professor Otto Tulyevich Schmidt, was sent to take the colonists off their icebound island, deposit a new shift of weather observers. The ice pack closed in on the Chelyuskin in September, hugged it all winter, broke it in February. One man was lost but doughty...
...woman held him. Harry had never been outside New York but was daft about Indians. Once he bought an Indian tepee, pitched it on an apartment roof where he and his little daughter spent long evenings talking about the Wild West. Then Harry was shanghaied to a freighter bound for Australia. For years he tramped the seas until the lightship claimed...
...grand daughters, announcing that he intended to take up the study of music. Frederick Bertrand Robinson, president of the College of the City of New York, who boasts, "I start something new each year," returned from a trip to Europe as a member of the crew of a Norwegian freighter. Said he: "It was the happiest 16 days I ever spent...
...Samuel Jr. went with him as far as Milan whence the old man fled alone to Athens. Instead of bravely facing the music, he had elected to become a hounded man, to ask hospitality of aliens, to finagle with outlandish courts and people, to flee on a scummy little freighter, to lie in shabby hotels, and finally to be cornered in a common jail in Istanbul and carried home captive. The Crack Up. Such disgrace followed, by only a few years, public honors. In 1931, on the 50th anniversary of Insull's arrival in the U. S., Owen Young...