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...next morning the Barbados foundered. Captain Hough and eight men (including Joseph Valverde, cousin of the owner) got to the ship's one lifeboat, floated in it off the Delaware Capes for 68 bitter-cold hours. When three of them died, they were slipped overboard by the others. The storm was still raging when the remaining five were rescued by Clyde Line's S. S. Henry R. Mallory. Emanuel Valverde, his wife, Willie the chauffeur and two seamen stayed with the Barbados, the two Packard limousines, the seven pianos and Emanuel Valverde's dream? at the bottom...
...have seen much beauty, but she was the most beautiful thing. She was so splendid, and so distresst: she was also moving as though she were alive." In all, the Wanderer made ten long voyages, but never one without some accident. "Men fell from aloft and overboard from her; others died, or broke bones, in her; she lost some spars; she took charge of her tugs; her cargoes shifted; she was on fire once and ashore four times." Finally, on April 14, 1907, at anchor in the Elbe River at two o'clock in the morning, a German troopship...
...some were on their feet, pulling at it. The sloop was coming up into the wind. The trouble was clear now: Shamrock's main halyard had snapped. "What a pity," said Sir Thomas Lipton as though to himself. He called his secretary, Major Westwood. "I wonder if anyone is overboard or hurt," he said. "See what you can get on the radio...
...impertinent. Whoever takes his course may see for himself, if he likes. Suffice it to say that Mr. Babbitt is a preacher of proportion and the golden mean. Like the ancient Greeks, he takes as his motto: "Nothing too much". All external standards, such as religion, he throws overboard, and appeals to the wisdom of human experience as the only rule to order life. He shuns as the plague all the emotional ecstasies that break down the rigid self-discipline which is his prescription for all humanity...
...living in the U. S. anc supporting his mother, he managed to save $320 in 18 months . . . how he walked into the White House one day and spoke to President Hayes, who took him for a despatch boy . . . his remark on being shown the tea thrown overboard during the Boston Tea Party: "They had a lot of good sense. It wasn't Lipton's." He refers to the cup as "that old mug." In Newport he has kept much to himself on his yacht Erin. Last week he was seriously ill, result of overexertion which a recent operation...