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Then came the Revolution to plunge this young nobleman into obscurity overnight and drive him penniless to Paris, later to the U. S. A stranded emigre, his life apparently wrecked, he led a hand-to-mouth existence for five years by lecturing on astronomy at $3 a lecture. In 1923 he and a few other White Russian exiles pooled their resources ($600) and proceeded to build an airplane out of old automobile parts in a chicken-coop on Long Island. An able pianist. Sikorsky meanwhile attracted the attention of his fellow exile, Sergei Rachmaninoff, who helped raise $100.000 to start...
...Wrangell, Alaska, the temperature climbed to 100°, where it had never been seen before. Near Chicago in Cook County's Oak Forest Infirmary 3,983 aged, penniless inmates still wore their woollen shirts, long winter underwear, ate oatmeal and corned beef hash, and worked in the sun-baked fields. In five days 39 of them dropped dead. Missouri had over 400 deaths. And one day during the hot spell there was a brisk snowfall at Colorado Springs...
...Jobless, penniless, Jimmie Rodgers yodeled his way around the North Carolina countryside, drank all the corn whiskey he could get, organized a little band of hillbillies to sing for food and drink in tumbledown Southern hotels. In 1927 he read that Victor Co. was operating a recording station in Bristol, Va. He bummed his way to Bristol, wandered into the Victor building...
...which she sang "Heaven Will Protect the Working Girl." Thereafter she appeared in cinemas with Charlie Chaplin (Tillie's Punctured Romance, Tillie's Tomato Surprise). After the War she found herself unable to get engagements, tried futilely to make money in Florida real estate. When she was 60, almost penniless, she scored an overnight hit as "Marthy" in Anna Christie, stealing the show from Greta Garbo. A first-rate star for the second time in her life, she was voted the nation's most popular cinemactress, scored other hits in Tugboat Annie, Min and Bill, Dinner at Eight...
...father's touch. Pepe liked the life, however, learned all the dissolute extracurricular tricks. When his father arranged a marriage between him and Pilár, known to be a beauty, thought to be an heiress, Pepe quickly found she was too saintly for his taste. Left a penniless orphan by the death of her scheming grandmother, Pilár was jilted by Pepe. Don Jose took her into his household where both he and Juan fell in love with her. But Pilar's saintliness was too much for them: when Juan realized that she was as impregnable...