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...things happened almost simultaneously at Little America one morning last week. The Administration Building's gasoline tank shot up in flames and Cameraman Joseph A. Pelter keeled over with a sharp pain in his side. "My surgical instruments!" cried Dr. Louis H. Potaka. "Under the tank...
Four Byrdmen tossed fire bombs into the flames while the doctor rescued his kit. The fire died. Dr. Potaka stretched Cameraman Pelter on a table, sliced out his appendix. Badly inflamed, it would have burst by afternoon. A long convalescence was ahead of Joseph Pelter. No matter how warm the patient is kept, said Dr. Potaka, a wound heals slowly in frigid Antartica...
...scene of Mirthful Haven is Maine, where Tarkington has spent many a summer (at Kennebunkport) ; the principal characters are Maine natives. Villains of the piece are the "summer people." Edna Pelter is the pretty but declassee daughterof Long Harry, lobsterman and owner of a shack that summer visitors view as an eyesore and a disgrace. Visitors and villagers alike look down on the Pelters: the feeling is reciprocal. But the old Captain Embury, retired sailor, No. 1 citizen of Mirthful Haven, who could always make his voice heard above "the roarin' of the tem-pest," likes the Pelters, likes...
...very different now from the scornful little female Ishmael she has been. The temptation to be with boys and girls of her own age is too much for her; she meets Gordon sometimes, goes to an occasional party. But the dénouement is not far off. Pelter's enemy Corning discovers Pelter's secret, that all Mirthful Haven but no summer visitor knows. He tips off the revenue cutter. That night Pelter is led into a trap, tries to escape, is shot. Then everything comes out. Mrs. Corning rescues her son in the nick of time from...
...shipping strike which had just set in and which later became a serious boycott. Leys worked with coolies, attained the dignity of winch-driver, and later made out to the ships daily to cargo with his gang of riff-raff and strike-breakers, returning at night under a pelter of stones from the strikers. He worked on the beach, in the hospitals, and as a newspaper correspondent...