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...13th day the first man died, raving; on the 14th day their water gave out, two more died. They tried to make a condenser to get fresh water, but had little success. On the iyth day the chief engi- neer died. With part of his body they made a broth. "The salt in the sea water in which the flesh was boiled was absorbed by the flesh, leaving the broth free from salt and not unpleasant to taste. The flesh was like tough veal." On the 23d day the survivors drank the blood from a fresh corpse. Next day they...
That's The Woman is the latest offering of Playwright Bayard Veiller (The Trial of Mary Dugan, The 13th Chair). In the first scene spectators are apprised that a young socialite (Gavin Muir) will indubitably go to the electric chair for the murder of his best friend unless he is willing to divulge his move ments on the night of the killing. At the last moment Mercer Trask (A. E. Anson), a barrister of the Clarence Darrow variety, is importuned to cheat the gallows, free Mr. Muir. Lawyer Trask has not been on the case half an hour before...
...sawing Giants and Robins: a 20-inning game?longest of the season?with the league-leading Cubs in Chicago, 8 to 7. Eight pitchers were used, five of them by the Cubs. Next day the Cubs won the second game of the series 9 to 8 in the 13th inning, after scoring 5 runs in the ninth to tie, 5-5, pulling even again 8-8 in the nth. In the third game burly Hack Wilson, Cub centrefielder, drove his 45th homerun of the season in the first inning with two men on base and his 46th in the fourth...
Endurers. At Roosevelt Field, N. Y., Robert Black and Louis Reichers landed in their 13th day of endurance flying, hinted that rivals had tampered with their fuel. At St. Louis, Forest O'Brine and Dale ("Red") Jackson, former record holders, approached their 400th hour in their attempt to beat the Hunter brothers...
Brother Joseph Dutton, 87, Trappist lay brother, Vermont-born Civil War veteran (private to captain in the 13th Wisconsin infantry), onetime Tennessee businessman, left his priestly post at the leper settlement on Molokai Island, Hawaii, for the first time in 44 years, went by boat to Honolulu for eye treatment. Though bent with age and practically blind, brother Joseph planned to return to Molokai by airplane. Said he: "Everything goes like a whiz these days, doesn't it? Just like a whiz. No, I regret nothing but the evil in the world and leprosy. A cure for that? I doubt...