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...barnstormed the great plains in a primitive two-seater plane to photograph the Dust Bowl. She hitchhiked by rowboat to get pictures of the Louisville flood. As the only foreign press photographer in Russia when Hitler attacked, she dodged wardens and bombers to shoot the nightly air raids on Moscow. Her ship was torpedoed out from under her in the invasion of Africa; she was among the first correspondents to photograph Buchenwald; she was the last to interview Gandhi, hours before his assassination. Thus Margaret Bourke-White followed the classic dictum of her trade, to be "in the right place...
...success is its Egyptian boss, dynamic, balding Mahmoud Younis, 50, a onetime army engineer and a close friend of Nasser since the days when they shared an office at the Staff Officers College, Egypt's West Point. Though Younis had never sailed so much as a rowboat, Nasser picked him to run the busy waterway shortly after the British and French ship pilots withdrew from the canal in September 1956. At first, Younis had available only 26 trained pilots of the 250 normally required, but he kept the canal functioning around the clock. "I didn't know anything...
...BAHAMAS. Grand Bahama Island, 65 miles east of Palm Beach, is attracting more and more of a spillover from the Florida coast with an air-conditioned, many-splendored thing called the Grand Bahama Hotel, where the swimming pool is so large that the lifeguards use a rowboat. Farther south, the so-called Out Islands are becoming more popular with the kind of people for whom Nassau is beginning to seem far too much like a honky-tonk meld of El Morocco, Smalls' Paradise and Fort Lauderdale. Eleuthera has acquired four new hotels, and Harbour Island, a tiny island...
When Sweden's Jenny Lind entered New York Harbor on a paddle-wheel steamer in 1850, P.T. Barnum went out in a rowboat to greet her, carrying a spray of red roses in his arms. She was a plain young woman of 29, hair parted in the middle. Her nose was a Nordic spud. She had a wide mouth, and she wore no cosmetics. But she was the most celebrated operatic soprano in the world, and a few days later a man bid $225 to buy the first ticket to her first concert in America...
...edge of the sea, skipping sophisticated, multimillion-dollar pebbles that sink out of sight. What man needs is a ship that he can sail on the new ocean and bring safely back to port. Four years ago, he produced the first crude model of such a ship, a rowboat of the infinite called...