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Immediately after the jump, the bridge and both banks of the river became crowded. A fire engine, with pulmotor apparatus was summoned to the scene. After 20 minutes of grappling of two policemen in a rowboat the body was recovered...
Mentally and emotionally, Robert Wadlow seems to be a normal 19-year-old smalltown boy. He was a star basketball player at Alton High School. He swims well. He does not go boating because the only time he entered a rowboat he foundered it, almost drowning his father and himself. Nor can he join in social sports like tennis. He is too big to go out with girls, so he entertains himself with photography. He likes to have his little sister and brother clamber over him. He helps his mother around the house with such tall chores ar washing windows...
...hurdy-gurdy, the fun starts. Unable to get at the booty, the robbers get the elders drunk, drag the hurdy-gurdy away with the boy asleep on top. Boy and hurdy-gurdy, mule and dog then endure a series of escapades. They drift about a lake in a rowboat. They are jailed. They climb the Alps and get lost in the snow. They meet a jolly hermit. They foil the robbers who follow them disguised as minstrels in an empty beer keg on wheels. Finally, the robbers resort to collecting all the hurdy-gurdies in the region to distract...
Simply because we cannot all find room on our "ship of 'Capitalism'" is no excuse for sinking her and providing every man with a rowboat. Our problem, rather, is to improve her facilities of accomodation; --not to carry out the scheme of "Doryism" that such men as Browder preach...
Mother gorillas in equatorial Africa speak his name to hush their young. He has crossed Australia in the pouch of a kangaroo. He has followed the edge of the Gulf Stream in a rowboat to determine the exact date of spring. He has taught Ubangi women to play tiddlywinks on their platter lips. He owns an adjective factory in New Britain, Conn., whence he sallies forth each year, like a vernal Santa Claus, to scatter his sesquipedalian largess to thirstily gaping yokels. These and hundreds of such amiable Munchausenisms have been printed in the U. S. Press about Dexter William...