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Four times between 1941 and 1944, fed by the Republican and its sisters-the Plattes, the Yellowstone, the Niobrara, the Cheyenne, the Belle Fourche-the Missouri had jumped its unstable banks. Men watched in misery while people, barns, houses, hogs, cattle and precious topsoil went tumbling down its chocolate torrent. Estimated damage: $149 million...
Then he heard a scream. Eleven-year-old Keene Freeman, son of famed Washington, D.C. neurologist Dr. Walter Freeman, had escaped his father's eye for a moment, and slipped into the racing torrent while trying to retrieve a canteen. He was headed for the falls. As the boy twisted toward the brink 80 feet away, Veteran Loos, like the other tourists, had a moment for decision. He made it. He vaulted the rail, floundered in icy, swirling power...
...surrendered. In the knee patches of a child's ski suit, inspectors found a wad of large-denomination U.S. bills. A woman's sewing kit concealed three whopping diamonds. A three-year-old's belt bulged with 21 wristwatches. Shoe heels and toothpaste tubes disgorged a torrent of foreign currency and jewelry...
Haydn: Symphony No. 98 in B Flat (NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini conducting; Victor, 7 sides). A great conductor recording first-rate music (which he has not always done recently). The result is a dazzling torrent of melody. Performance: excellent...
...critical fire, pinching the ladies and wagging his fierce red whiskers. He grew as famous as his neighbors, James Joyce, Gertrude Stein and Ernest Hemingway. By the time he was 40 he had written 31 books. The stream of poetry, prose and French and Chinese translations swelled to a torrent. Then, the early '30s, Ezra Pound stepped abruptly out of his field...