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...throttles his motor and yells: "Which way is Ireland?" He gets no answer, but within an hour he is over the Irish coast. Then come the Cornish cliffs of England, the Channel, the coast of France. Hungry, he munches a sandwich, first food in 33 hours, slakes his dry throat from the still half-filled canteen. It's nearly 10 p.m.; the lights of Paris come into view, and five miles away, the floodlights of Le Bourget Field. Lindbergh toys with the idea of flying on to Rome. He has nearly 1,000 miles worth of gas left...
...this year's match despite their crack rivals. After a day's shooting, -they were tied. Next day Policeman Reeves finished up 14 points ahead of Benner. But on the final day of the match. Reeves was a candidate for a hospital bed. With a fiery strep throat, full of fever (104°) and penicillin, he dragged himself to the range. At noon, he still held a thin lead over Armyman Benner. While the others ate lunch, Harry Reeves flopped in his hut. Shuttling between his cot and the range all through the sweltering afternoon, Reeves...
British sportswriters made remarkably uncricket exhibitions of themselves. Wrote the Daily Mirror's Peter Wilson: "We took them by the throat and scruff . . . We took them neck and crop, bag and baggage, hip and thigh, skin and bone, and we bundled them out . . ." Retorted an Aussie writer: "No trumpets yet, England...
...damp October day, and Miss Dagmar Peters trembled with cold. She was planning to hitchhike to London, thirty miles distant. . . . Six hours later a police-surgeon was examining a ridged blue death-bruise around her throat. She lay spread-eagled among dark shrubbery verging the A20 high road between Maidstone and London. 'Strangled,' said the surgeon...
...Loser. In Kansas City, Mo., accepting Donald Reikard's invitation to play poker, John Wright lost $2.50, pressed a knife against Reikard's throat and took the $2.50 back, later explained to police: "I decided I had been cheated...