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Enough passengers heard the cries of fire to choke the Noronic's three passen ger decks as frantic men & women fought to get to ropes and ladders dangling from the ship's sides. Bashing through doors and portholes of the tiny staterooms, others got out-some naked or in flaming night clothes-to plunge headlong over the side and into the water or try a jump to the pier. There was time to lower only one lifeboat...
...summer wears away; the Polish Corridor becomes the hottest spot in Europe. A frantic cable comes from Jimmy's mother. An old terror returns to him: he may have another epileptic seizure any day. But before he does, the Forces of history converge on Mell and kill Max Divver, their disillusioned celebrant, as he is making a last confused and furious effort to acquire personal dignity...
After three days, many of them were. Both sides had yielded a little; wage talks were begun. A measure of quiet returned to the frantic halls of the haute couture...
...feel his unsparing rod more often than the Methodists and Baptists ("As for the Methodists, the Baptists and other such mudsills of the Lord . . ."). As for his own soul: "I go on believing dismally that when the bells ring and the cannon are fired, and people go rushing about frantic with grief, and my mortal clay is stuffed for the National Museum at Washington, it will be the veritable end of the noble and lovely creature once answering to the name of Henry...
Fortnight ago, Decca recorded a frantic number by Negro Bandleader Buddy Johnson called Did You See Jackie Robinson Hit That Ball? All 3,000 copies were sent up to Harlem. They sold out in a little more time than it takes for a home run to clear the wall at Ebbets Field. Sample...