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...Thirteen years ago Thomas Fleming Day, deep sea voyager, hung a one-cylinder Evinrude over the side of a twelve-ft. dinghy and chugged 233 nautical miles from New York to Boston to test the reliability of the newly discovered, much-criticized outboard motor. A power cruiser accompanying the dinghy broke down twice, three times. Pioneer Day completed the course. His time: 52 hrs., 47 minutes...
...eighteenth paper he had purchased since he became editor and part owner of the Elmira (N. Y.) Gazette in 1906. Mergers and one sale (Twin City Sentinel), Winston-Salem, N. C. (TIME, Aug. 23, 1926) reduced the number of his newspapers to thirteen. He was not in a position to challenge the Hearst or Scripps-Howard chains, *but he had become a dominant influence in upstate New York, an unobtrusive god in a territory of more than 5,000,000 citizens. He is now a man of wealth, insured for $1,000,000, with properties for which he holds...
...last turn at bat, the Crimson nine brought its run total to thirteen, scoring three times on a walk, a sacrifice, and three timely singles...
...Bess came out of jail but he had no farm to go to. The lawyers had eaten that up long ago. Thirteen years at hard labor had aged and broken him. He had a bad cough. People sent him money and the Legislature will probably provide for him. But Governor Richards agreed that South Carolina's debt to Ben Bess is irreparable...
...dead. Mrs. Edna Hussman hobbles about her household duties. Katherine Schaub developed pains in the skull. Her jaws crumbled; her features were curiously altered; then her mind sickened. For some time she was confined in a hospital for "nervous disorders." Her cousin Virginia Randolph is numbered among the first thirteen victims. Her death certificate read Vincent's Angina- Crippled Grace Fryer still sticks to her job. She has worked in a Newark bank ever since leaving the radium company seven years ago; still runs her department although her left elbow cannot move and she wears a brace from neck...