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Blue-eyed, sailor-suited Kelvin Arthur Rodgers, Australian 3-year-old, left a freighter at a New York dock last week for the last lap of a 9,000-mile voyage of life & death. Frisky, unconcerned, he carried in his right lung a 3-in. packing nail which he had gulped down 18 months ago. Unless it came out, Australian doctors agreed, Baby Rodgers' days were numbered. Twice they attempted to remove the nail without a Chevalier Jackson bronchoscope. Both attempts failing, they wrote to Dr. Jackson. He told them to send the child to Philadelphia, that the nail...
...there might be a transatlantic record beaten, but everywhere among Britain's lower classes sailing day brought candid remarks by millions that "she'll beat the French!" In Paris and in London, confident booking clerks assured Queen Mary passengers that, leaving Southampton on Wednesday afternoon, she would dock in Manhattan on Sunday afternoon (four days). Aboard the ship sailed scores of passengers with tourist-agency coupons commencing in Manhattan with dinner on Sunday night...
...Editor Grey felt, had been "full of peace and good will towards men" and, despite the fact that it is "at least an equal of any nation represented and definitely the superior of all but one [Britain]," it had been put into "the position of the prisoner in the dock facing a hostile jury...
...threatened to have it out with the mess steward. Ashore at Naples, three men had been beaten up by their fellows. Captain Gregory clapped two of the assailants in the brig. At Genoa the ship was delayed when part of the crew staged a protest meeting on the dock. After intervention by the U. S. Consul, the prisoners were released, to be sent to California as first-class passengers in another ship. A seaman who gave information to the President Garfield's officers was put ashore at Marseille for fear he would be murdered...
...hang by the neck until dead, the Mohammedan seemed stunned. Then suddenly Hakim Bakhtyar Rustomji Ratanji came to himself and without jittering or trembling gave his British judge with upraised arm the salute of Oriental warriors. As two wardens came to lead him from the prisoner's dock, Ratanji gave the same salute to the uncomfortable, astonished British jury...