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...plenty of excuses. Egyptian Fahmy Attallah was put off by 6-in. practice shells from an English shore battery which kept plopping into the water ahead of him. Panagiotis Kamberos of Greece was disqualified when his trainers yanked him into the boat out of the jaws of a shark. "Papa" Eduard Mussche, 63, the oldest competitor, got lost in the Channel, had a mackerel tickle his stomach, finally sighted a boat and climbed...
Into the Sea? Two weeks before the North Koreans struck, tough, shark-mouthed Walton Walker said to his command: "Your mission and mine is to maintain the splendid Eighth Army in the state of readiness which will assure success in any role we may be called on to assume. In this I am confident we shall not fail...
...brief, that was Jelly Roll's story. Bordello pianist ("professor"), pool-playing shark and pimp, he was in & out of trouble all his life. In his most glorious days, in the '20s, when such youngsters as Benny Goodman and Bix Beiderbecke gathered around to hear Jelly's style ("Jazz music is to be played sweet, soft, plenty rhythm"), he was "all in diamonds." As his wife Mabel Bertrand recalls: "His watch was circled in diamonds. His belt buckle was in gold and studded with diamonds. He even had sock-supporters of solid gold set with diamonds. Then...
Fish Story. Off Brielle, N.J., Sigmund Scharf caught 14 sharks with one hook by hauling in a six-foot brown shark which later produced a litter of 13 in the boat's cockpit...
They haggled for nigh a month as they traveled toward Peking. The Chinese grew testier. So did the British-they disparaged shark's-fin soup, complained of smelly peasants (like "putrefying garlic on a much-used blanket"), ridiculed the native opera ("the instrumental music, from its resemblance to the bagpipes, might be tolerated by Scotchmen; to others it was detestable"). Then, as they neared the walls of Peking, the troubled mandarins agreed that the troublesome ambassador might kneel before the Emperor on one knee and bow three times, repeating this homage thrice. The Canton trade, the British told themselves...