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...Suddenly, simultaneous shrieks rent the air, mingling with the splash of water. Two struggling figures swept beneath the projecting fishpole. The boy jumped. Seizing one girl by the hair, setting his teeth into the dress of the other, he floated both until help came in the form of a rowboat. When the distracted Courtneys had assured themselves of their daughter's safety, they turned, grateful, then dismayed. . . . Far down the beach they saw the long fishpole, the dog and the dripping boy. At their hails, he broke into a run, disappeared...
Mary Garden, prima donna of the Chicago Civic Opera: "As I lay naked on pillows in my rowboat one morning last week, out on the Mediterranean from my villa at Antibes, France-a daily practice with me, to enjoy the sun's curative rays-i fell asleep, a wide straw hat on my head, my legs dangling overboard into the water. I awoke, startled by furtive splashing near my lonely boat. To my horror, two huge sharks were circling about, churning the water, swirling greedily. I drew in my legs. I recalled that a bather near Genoa had been...
...miles) in 15 hours, 57 seconds. In the same year, she trudgeon-crawled from Albany to New York (153 miles) in 66 swimming hours, stopping, of course, for sleep at night. On this excursion Clemington Corson, assistant superintendent of the U. S. S. Illinois, handled the oars of her rowboat. Later they were married, and now have two children. Last week it was Clemington Corson who rowed a dory across the English Channel in the van of his wife, who chatted with her in grey hours of the early morn ing, who fed her two pints of hot chocolate, four...
From the depths of the U-19 a collapsible canvas rowboat was produced. The tall gaunt man and two Irish companions stepped into it and commenced to row ashore. The commander of the submarine called after them, "Sir Roger Casement! Is there nothing more that you require...
...York State Isaiah J. Churgin and Ephraim Skliansky went rowing on Long Lake. The rowboat overturned and they were drowned. Both were officers of the Amtorg Trading Corporation, buying machinery for Russia. Funeral services, without religious ceremonies, were held at a funeral chapel in Manhattan. There were 500 wreaths sent-most of them allegedly from grateful U. S. merchants, unnamed. One with an inscription "To my dear friends and co-workers," was said to have been placed there by order of Leon Trotzky. Four busses, two flower cars, ten limousines and other automobiles made up the funeral procession. The corpses...