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...narrow brush with death. Billy Jenny, a 21-year-old vacationing camper, happened to wake, saw that the nearby mountain lodge was afire and rushed to shout a warning. By the time he arrived, the only escape was from the lake side of the house into a motor launch. Out on the safety of the lake, clad only in their night clothes, Hoover, his host, and other guests watched the lodge burn to the ground within ten minutes...
...with a mental age of between ten and twelve years), said the institute's Research Director James Stannard Baker, make the best automobile drivers. If the moron's eyesight is a little below par, all the better-keeps his mind on the job. "The operation of a motor car," Baker explained, "is too dumb a job to command the attention of those who are particularly bright." And people with sharp eyes are apt to be distracted by shop windows or pretty faces...
Almost 5,000 gold seekers soon converged on the site. From the territorial capital, Macapa, they rode 200 miles up the Amazon in motor launches, another 170 miles up the Jari, paying $75 to travel in dugouts with outboard motors; they portaged around twelve waterfalls and eight long rapids. Eronias Fernandes da Silva, discoverer of the gold and, by custom, proprietor of the field, rented them on a shares basis the right to pan or sluice along 20 to 30 yards of river bank...
Postal Regulations. In Ottawa, Canadian army brass issued an order prohibiting soldiers overseas from mailing to friends at home: "motor vehicles, airplanes, motorcycles, surgical and dental instruments and machine tools...
Woman's Intuition. In Somersworth, N.H., Mrs. Boardman Wright Jr. dozed off during a motor trip, dreamed that she was involved in a crash, escaped injury after she awoke with a start, grabbed the wheel from her husband, causing their car to overturn...