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...each year to not more than three Seniors who display the same qualities of sound character and leadership as were typical of Richard Glover Ames '34, and his brother, Henry Russell Ames '38. The two men were drowned in a vain attempt to save their father, who was washed overboard during a trans-Atlantic yacht race...
...tried to swim ashore. One ate a jellyfish and jumped screaming over the side. Another, in demented fury before he died, tossed the one bucket of rain water overboard. They agreed to hold each body a day to make sure that death was real. By the third week only Kelly and another mess boy were left. When his sidekick gave up, Kelly waited 36 hours before he tossed him overboard. "After that," he said, "I laid down and tried to make myself comfortable, hoping that I could die without any more trouble." He was lying there waiting for death when...
...Father Joseph Sweeney tried to run the Jap blockade on a Chinese coaster with a vitally needed load of medicine for his leper colony. When two gunboats shelled the ship he slipped overboard and swam six hours before reaching shore. Now, despite the spread of the war, he is busy as ever among his lepers...
With My Crossbow. That night an albatross landed on the raft. Aldrich killed it with the pistol and Dixon, the only one who could swim, dived overboard and retrieved it. The men ate the organs and the entrails, but put the unplucked flesh away to save. In the night it glowed with phosphorescence and Dixon threw it overboard. That was a tough thing to do. But during the night it rained again. "The drawers worked fine," Dixon said. "We all had a good drink...
Faced with profit and dividend cuts like these, many investors dumped stocks overboard as soon as they read Morgenthau's tax bill. Result: the Dow-Jones industrial average plopped 4½ points to 102.1, lowest since March 1938; utility shares hit 12, lowest ever and only one-twelfth of 1929-5 145 peak. Railroad shares fell over a point, despite the 3-to-6% freight-rate increase they had been allowed on Monday (but rail stocks, at 26.3, were still 2 points above last year's low). New York Stock Exchange seats dropped too-one sold...