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After a dog fight with 14 Jap planes, Lieut. Clarence Sandford had been forced down for lack of gas and had stripped off his clothes and swum three miles to shore, where he collapsed. When he came to, on the beach of Bremer Island, north of Australia, two black aborigines...
At that reply the natives lowered their spears and walked the flyer 25 miles to the home of an English missionary, who cared for him and put him aboard a small sailing vessel bound for Australia.
Three of us, Harry Newman, "Bung" Young, and I, applied at the same time, and Paul told us he would get us jobs together. Unfortunately, we boasted of our Three Marx Brothers ideas too widely and told several people of our intention to experiment with unusual sound vibrations by applying...
Those were the days when you could see the salmon fighting their way upstream, up rapids, over falls, around innumerable obstructions, until each found the stream where it was spawned, where now it would spawn and die. If you were lucky you could see a Chinook, the biggest salmon of...
Cro-Magnon man did not make elaborate pictures to decorate his home. The pictures are most often in inaccessible crags or in the remote recesses of inhabited caves. Nor did he make them from sheer love of beauty, for the pictures are often so superimposed, retouched and crowded as to...