Word: lambert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only one man in the world can tell the story Evan C. Lambert told last week...
...about 10 a. m. on Wednesday. On Monday the safety of the platform had been questioned, reinforcing bolts had been put through the brackets which held the four wheels on which the 30-by-60 ft. platform was moved along the rail-girders. On Tuesday, Foreman "Slim" Lambert and his crew had worked all day on the platform. A second platform, not yet in use, was suspended at the first tower on the San Francisco side. Unknown to Lambert, a party of State engineers a few minutes before had pronounced that other platform unsafe, were even then walking...
...warm and sunny up there. The workers were joshing each other about the softness of their jobs. Suddenly there was a jar as a corner bracket snapped and tilted the great platform. "It gave a funny shudder and lurched," said Lambert. In an instant another corner came loose. ''I felt everything slipping. There was nothing to hang to. So I hollered and jumped into the net. I hit the net just before the staging struck it. The net sagged slowly and then the ropes popped and the net gave way with a sound like thunder. It was like...
Twenty minutes later, swept almost a mile toward the sea by the outgoing tide, Lambert was rescued by a fishing boat. He still had an arm around Dummatzen. But Dummatzen was dead...
That, at Lafayette, Ind. last week, was the crucial moment of the most exciting game of the liveliest week in the country's major intercollegiate winter sport. On the sidelines, Purdue's Coach Ward ("Piggy") Lambert, who puts a stick of chewing gum into his mouth whenever he is perturbed about his team, gnawed a wad the size of a golf ball. In their seats around the court, 5,500 wildly excited spectators watched the players go to their positions for the tip off. In the next few seconds, things happened almost too quickly for the crowd...