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...Uruguay then sailed south for Montevideo and Buenos Aires. On the way back north the Uruguay hove into Rio on November 17 to be hailed by a cheering delegation of 200 Brazilian seamen. The man they cheered for was Good Neighbor Wyly. The delegation escorted him to a flag-draped automobile, sped him to the hospital to receive the thanks of the recuperating stevedore, then took him back to his ship. There they gave him a gold medal; a twelve-inch gold filigree model of the windjammer Saldanha da Gama, $25 in cash and an offer of a life...
...hours the five men hung lashed to the rigging, scanning the horizon. Then, early on October 1 they spied a vessel steering southwest through the high running sea. Closer and closer it came, finally hove to less than a mile off. Frantic, the wrecked sailors waved their jackets, made out men sizing up their plight from the newcomer's bridge. On her bows they could see illegible characters and the familiar word Maru,* which all Japanese ships bear. Then this Maru steamed away toward Europe...
...uncertainty of the western horizon; behind, Foulweather Bluff and the fouler prospects of graduating into a depression. One afternoon last week, with 35,000 miles in her wake and her bows scoured with the spray of more than seven seas. Idle Hour breezed in from the blue Atlantic and hove to off Manhattan's Battery wall. At her helm was no pessimistic college senior, but a persuasive, soft-spoken yarn spinner who had ridden out a depression, tasted the tang of the world, and had a tale to sell...
...days at sea they put in at Magdalena Bay, near the tip of Lower California, but the Mexican coast guard sent them on their way. Days later they missed their next landfall, Cape San Lucas, sighting no land until the Tres Marias Islands, south of the Gulf of California, hove into view. Thence they sped to Banderas Bay with a tropical typhoon whistling in their wake. They said they had put in for supplies, but Puerto Vallarta authorities questioned them, detained them after hearing the whole story...
...dejectedly, his thinning hair plastered sidewise over his pate like an oldtime bartender's. Now junior Senator from Tennessee, as well as President of the International Pressmen's Union, he was Coordinator of Industrial Co-operation in the New Deal when, in 1935, he suddenly hove into TVA's picture as a claimant for $1,600,000 for certain marble deposits in lands which TVA had flooded. Arthur Morgan last week reasserted that the lands had been surveyed by TVA experts and found to contain no marble of commercial value, that Directors Harcourt Morgan & Lilienthal nevertheless tried...