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...Manhasset, L. I., Joseph Smithanna, marine patrolman, putt-putted out to rescue 250-lb. Vera Nielson, struggled manfully to pull her into his boat, failed. Nothing daunted, small Patrolman Smithanna slung a rope around large, patient Vera Nielson, towed her to safety...
Mexico. Floods, built up by torrential rains, swept down the San Alejo River in Vera Cruz, engulfed without warning eight women washing clothes on the river bank, seven children playing beside them. Other floods swamped suburbs of Mexico City, made 1,000 homeless, drowned two boys...
...Once with the Marines in Cuba, his greenness soon seasoned into tougher timber; he decided that he liked the life. He saw quite active service in the Philippines, in China, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Haiti. Twice he won the Congressional Medal of Honor-for his part in the fighting at Vera Cruz, in 1914, and for the capture of Fort Riviera (whose existence Haiti's Minister to the U. S., Dantes Bellegarde, two years ago attempted to deny). Butler says he was sidetracked during the War because of an ''honest expression of opinion," was finally sent to France...
...Fiske's book, all the characters-except a preposterous old woman from Boston (where Without Music should be banned) who goes to Egypt and allows herself to be waylaid by an ostrich-lead decadent sex lives. Characteristically deplorable is the case of Clarissa the Flea who traveled from Vera Cruz to New York on an old tramp. Spanish and nervous, she had no difficulty in working her way into the heart of New York society. Clarissa's mother joined Sir Hubert Wilkins' expedition to the North Pole, conducted an equivocal expedition into the interior. As for Clarissa...
Last April John Ringling had given him the run of his "Greatest Show on Earth" for a month. His subjects now were the Flying Codonas, Baby Ruth the fat girl, trapezists, clowns, elephants. He likes best the Codonas' famed Passing Leap, a feat in which Vera Bruce Codona lets go of Lala Codona's hands at the end of the swing, catapults to a trapeze which her husband, the great Alfredo, has just left.* Alfredo, leaving without kicking back the trapeze, plunges over her and catches his brother's hands at the dizzy instant of pause before...