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...portable radio which he tuned to catch all news reports, and he carried it with him when he went to the beach at n :30. There he stood for 15 minutes, knee-deep on the hissing shingle. After his circulation was thus methodically aroused, he plunged in, swam past the breakers, churned up & down parallel to the beach for 45 minutes, ably swimming side stroke, breast stroke, Australian crawl. Then he went to lunch (fruit only) at the moderately swank Dunes Club, then back to the beach to sun on a mattress, read (Grapes of Wrath) through dark glasses, listen...
...storms were gathering about it. Churchgoers went in and out of St. Mary's, the great brick Gothic Cathedral, nicknamed "Stout Mary" because of its square plump tower. Foreigners (Danzigers not allowed) played roulette at the elegant casino at Zoppot. Thousands played on the gloriously white sands or swam in the cool waters of Danzig Bay. Up in the heavily wooded section south of the city, picnicking still went on. Couples promenaded on Danzig's patrician avenues lining the canals. City Hall was open as usual and the Nazi-operated radio station invited listeners to "come...
Richard Halliburton fulfilled himself in many ways and made it pay. He batted about Europe and the Orient, toured Tibet, climbed Fujiyama in midwinter. He mounted Olympus, swam the Hellespont, followed the trail of Ulysses from Ithaca back to Ithaca. Women's clubs began to clamor for him to address them and in 1925 he published his first book, The Royal Road to Romance...
...sold over a million copies. He was always turning up in odd places, doing odd things (and taking odd notes); newspapers printed thousands of columns of his exploits and plans for exploits. About nearly all of them there was an element of bravery and an element of bravura. He swam the Panama Canal (in installments), followed, on foot, the course of 1) Cortez' conquest of Mexico, 2) Balboa's march across Darien to the Pacific. He wandered through Yucatan, Peru and Brazil, with a pet monkey that died at last from overeating. He swam the Sea of Galilee...
...water. The watchers at Boiling Field, including the flier's wife and son, saw it all. Dr. Luis Quintanilla, counselor of the Mexican Embassy, and Naval Attache Manuel Zermeno jumped into automobiles, jounced over fields to the riverbank. Quintanilla and Zermeno flung off their coats, plunged in, swam to the plane, tried to pull Sarabia out. But he was inert, wedged in the cockpit, his head pressed against the instrument panel. When the plane had been towed ashore and Sarabia's body extricated, a coroner decided that Sarabia had drowned...