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Next he made a pair of crutches from limbs of a nearby tree. In spite of pain and weakness he began hobbling along the tracks. What happened in the hours that followed no one knows. At the end of seven hours, a mile from the patch of weeds where he had left his amputated foot, he fell fainting before an astonished train crew...
...most damning thing a Yorkshireman can say about man or woman." This leisurely, detailed portrait of Sylvia's married life shows that she herself, like a good Jameson heroine, had enough for six. She eloped with one of her shipowning mother's captains, stubbornly refused to patch the break even when it meant stinting her children, kept moving from house to house in windy Danesacre (Author Jameson's native Whitby), walking on the moors, quarreling with her port-bibbing mother-in-law, ignoring her garrulous sailor husband on his brief visits home. Never able to compromise...
...world's record by being just as unafraid of Louis as when he went into the ring. He still thought he could beat him. "I just got a little careless," he explained through lacerated lips. "That bum's way overrated. He's not even a patch on Jack Johnson's pants." Meanwhile, more disinterested sports men hailed Joe Louis as the greatest pugilist of all time - no one had ever successfully defended the world's heavyweight championship seven times...
...Department of Labor uphold the Secretary of the Treasury's inner circle reputation as a prophet when it announced that factory employment for May was off 1.1 points more than seasonally (to 90.1 on its index). Many a U. S. businessman saw a patch of blue sky early in May, when there was a flurry in steel (TIME, May 22), but last week it seemed only to have been a hole in the overcast...
...most U. S. citizens the month of June means weddings, graduations and reacquaintance with the great outdoors. Last week, in almost every U. S. home that boasts a patch of green grass, families were thinking up ways of amusing themselves or entertaining their week end guests. For those who are too fat, too feeble or too lazy to play golf or tennis, the new-mown lawn is the No. 1 arena for summer pastimes...