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Having presented the principal figures as slapstick personages, the picture finally tries to deal with them more solemnly. One stormy night when Annie is towing a load of garbage out to sea, she comes on the Glacier Queen, her shaft broken, foundering near a reef. This time Terry behaves like a hero. He crawls into the fire box of the Narcissus to repair the boiler so that the tug can pull the Glacier Queen out of danger. The film ends with Terry recovering from his burns and wear ing a medal. The steamship company has bought back the Narcissus...
When his motorboat was smashed on an Adriatic reef near Pola, the Duke of Spoleto, cousin to King Vittorio Emanuele of Italy, swam back from the safety of the shore to rescue his companion, a Lieutenant Cavalli...
...gusty December day in 1903, on the slope of a sand dune on a North Carolina coastal reef, Orville Wright started the tiny engine of a flimsy biplane, crawled aboard the lower wing and lay prone at the crude controls. The machine began to move. Brother Wilbur ran alongside steadying the wing. The ship left the ground, jerkily trod the wind for twelve marvelous seconds, nosed into the sand. A powered airplane had flown...
Last week the Southern Cross VI was hobbling along near Aneityum in the New Hebrides (midway between Australia and the Fijis). A sudden squall blew up. dashed the ship on a coral reef. She began to sink. Captain A. M. Stanton had to get his men ashore. First the crew tried to lower a boat. Monster waves lashed it, smashed it to bits. When a second attempt failed, an officer took a line in his teeth, dived into the swirling sea. He swam for half an hour, at last reached the beach 150 yd. away, crawled up cut and bleeding...
...introduction of the unfortunate multiple suite, previously avoided in all the new Houses scarcely promises to result in more rooms priced between $200 and $250, the great need. On admitting more men to the luxurious Harkness units, charging some less and giving them less, Harvard has taken a reef in its financial sails. What is needed, more than redistribution, is a larger number of moderately priced rooms. These can come only as a result of reduction in the total rents, to which the financial ability of Lehman Hall should be principally devoted...