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Edgar W. Warren II, shortstop and captain-elect of the Yale baseball team, was thrown from a speeding motorboat on Raquette Lake, N. Y. The outboard propeller gashed his left arm. After two blood transfusions two days later the arm was amputated. At Yale a movement started to retain him as baseball captain, with a lieutenant to direct play afield. His teammate Albie Booth, football and basketball captain, who was also a leading candidate for the baseball captaincy, hurried from New Haven to Warren's bedside...
...Black Sea was black and stormy around the royal palace at Exinograd, Bulgaria, when Tsar Boris looked out a seaward window. He saw six people in a tiny boat; they were fighting a losing fight with mighty waves. King Boris called a mechanic, jumped into his own motorboat, and "at great personal risk" sped out, towed the six to safety...
...William James ("Fingy") Conners, Buffalo steamship, newspaper and political tycoon. The Connerses lived so gaily at "The Monastery," their estate at Huntington, Long Island, that since he died (1929) she has refused to return there. (One of the rooms is paved with old tombstones.) She also gave up the motorboat racing at which she was enthusiastically expert. Last summer while she was traveling in California and thinking of founding a children's home somewhere with her inherited wealth (she is a devout Roman Catholic convert), she heard of the Coffey-Humber cancer work in San Francisco. She visited...
...first time in more than 300 years, so Japanese courtiers said, the officially divine Emperor, the Son of Heaven, went out last week "alone."' That is to say, Emperor Hirohito, climbed into a small motorboat, sternly commanded his entourage not to follow, and chugged off for the afternoon. At the helm was a common fisherman who did not count and two other common fishermen crouched beside him in the stern. Upon the prow sat the Divine One, eagerly peering out upon the waters through his spectacles for interesting specimens of seaweed. When the motorboat returned His Majesty had almost...
...natives built him a concrete house on the northeastern shore of the island. He circled his domain in a motorboat, rode over it on horseback. He doctored adults with castor oil and quinine, treated babies according to the rules laid down in Dr. Holt's Care and Feeding of Children. He served as midwife. He showed native fishermen how to fix their nets, farmers how to irrigate their gardens. He dispensed ready but gentle justice...