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...course when five tide-spun swimmers were spotted struggling in the water 1 ,000 yards away. As the cutter drew up, lines were thrown overboard. Then the strong arms of Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox, Assistant Secretary Ralph Bard and Colonel William Joseph ("Wild Bill") Donovan helped pull the swimmers to safety...
...putting together a fifty-pound crew is entirely different from that faced by a heavyweight coach, who must only assemble the eight men who will pull his shell through the water fastest, and even that is no easy job. The eight oarsmen in the lightweight shell must total not more than 1,200 pounds so that weight as well as rowing ability is a very integral part of the makeup of the fifties...
Oarsmen and oarswomen will find an opportunity to discuss laybacks and pull thoughts at any number of dances which are scheduled to be held after the water events...
...quietly hopeful of help, for before dark a circling plane had sighted the DC-3, whipped back to Vero Beach, ten miles away, for help. Captain O'Brien was still flying the plane through that morning's murderous thunderstorm. "Come on, Mac," he mumbled, "help me pull this wheel-we've got to get altitude." His copilot, B. M. Crabtree, had a broken leg. He sat cheerfully and waited...
Consequently her Job Mann is an even more resolute character than Ma Joad Determined to pull himself and his companions up from slime, malnutrition and poverty, he succeeds. If she sometimes belabors a point, ofttimes overwrites, Author Slade nevertheless carries her thesis -a quotation from her lawyer-husband, John A. Slade: "It is strange how most of us go through life, knowing so little about it, nourished on vague hopes, half-beliefs, and repressions . . .; in a crisis, it may be that only those who are capable of deliberate choice and planning shall survive...