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...runaway pontoons, to flood the ones floating,-it was an impossibility to tow the submarine to port with her stern resting on the bottom. Smashing seas imperiled the small boats and crashed together the four pontoons, rendering the re-submergence extremely hazardous. The first man to volunteer for the job of opening the valves was an engineer and before orders could be outlined to him in detail, he impatiently jumped over the rail into the swirling waters and clambered on one of the pontoons. As he reached to open the valve, a wrathful wave rushed over him. For a moment...
...play in which a young wife committed adultery in order to get a job in the movies...
Rarely does an important coach, in an important college, resign his job. Still less often does such a coach resign in midseason, without any premonitory public rumbling of trouble. Yet when Edward A. Stevens, head rowing coach at Harvard, resigned last week, with the Yale race at New London only three weeks off, he gave as reason only the cryptic statement: "Lack of co-operation on the part of the crew . . ." His resignation was accepted. Next day Herbert H. Haines, coach of the freshman crews, was appointed in his place...
...often the case with able Midlanders wherever found, Earle Martin's origins can be traced to that hotbed of literati and journalists, Indiana. He was born at Edinburgh, Ind., in 1874, and 20 years later got his first job from Meredith Nicholson, now famed as a novelist, on the Indianapolis News. In 1896 he joined the Scripps forces as a "police cub" under Charles F. Mosher of the Cincinnati Post, whose managing editor he became within three years...
...Oats, Lucky Strike cigarets, Kotex,* among other things-you need a picture of the ruddy-faced German-Jew who, as a rich man's 15-year-old son in Galveston, Tex., writhed at the thought of being known as "old Lasker's son Al"; who got a job writing dramatic criticism for a Galveston newspaper, then cut loose for Chicago to be office boy in an advertising agency at 18; who in four years owned that agency and was making $1,000 weekly, writing "messages" and bringing in new accounts; who at 41 was a multi-millionaire...