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Four times since then, salvage experts have tried to bring up the Télémaque. In 1939 a diver, wallowing through the mud at the Seine's bottom, reached blindly into a barrel in the sunken hulk and came up with a fistful of gold louis. His employers decided to bring up the brig whole. They slung cables under the wreck and hauled away, but when the slimy mess at last came to the surface, it consisted of only the forward part of the brig. The after part, presumably containing the treasure, still lurked on the bottom...
...been said of him that he has limitless ambition, plenty of ability and no respect for his fellow men. With those who do not cross him, he can be pleasant and even jovial. At 51, he is a hairy, muscular man's man, with the swarthy brow and barrel chest of a smaller Max Schmeling. He revels in the authority he has won back...
...great discredit if you're dishonest." Everybody helped himself. Senators who had spent half a million buying enough votes to win got their investment back in millions. For the President's congressional pals, there was a $4,000,000-a-month ration from the state lottery pork barrel. Sticky-fingered politicos picked up fortunes on contracts, customs deals, sugar quota allocations...
...flirting with death at Niagara Falls; of head injuries suffered when a small stone fell 350 ft. down a shaft in which he worked as a mucker; in Niagara Falls, Ontario. Hill's father, William ("Red") Hill Sr., went through the Niagara rapids three times in a homemade barrel, died in 1942 of a heart attack. Corky saved a brother, Major Hill, three years ago, when he tried to imitate his father (he eventually made it). Another brother, William ("Red") Hill Jr., died when his inner-tube contraption exploded in a trip over the falls...
...half hour of just talking, just standing there looking at the cameras. After all, people have double chins and all that sort of thing. But not he. He's telegenic. He's wonderful. The gestures, the timing, the voice. If he came out in a barrel and read the telephone book, they'd love him." The Sheen show, called Life Is Worth Living, is a half-hour talk on such subjects as freedom, pleasure, war & peace, love. The talks, Christian in outlook but not specifically Roman Catholic, are designed to appeal to listeners of all faiths...