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This year, not only will the participants, ski, run, and fall down the Sherburne Trail on Mount Washington Sunday, but they will also follow up the occasion with a giant slalom run by two-men teams tied together with a 40-foot rope...
...next seven and a half days were packed with equally nervous moments. His ship, last to leave Singapore harbor, was bombed with deadly efficiency by the Jap, was soon in flames. Yates McDaniel, propped against a coil of rope, took notes, stopping only to help fight the fires. A jam-packed lifeboat finally carried the oar-weary, bailing survivors to Bangka Island, five miles away. At dark, the tide so low that lifeboats could not float within a half-mile of the beach, the weary party began wading to deep water and rescuing launches from a nearby rubber plantation. Said...
...terms of the potential wealth of its strategic investments, it was far richer than that would suggest. Last week there was no news of the Elizaldes' inter-island shipping fleet, gin and rum distilleries, three sugar mills, lumber company, insurance companies, paint and floor-wax factory, huge rope factory, cattle ranch, iron mines, gold mines...
...young British sailor aboard the raft saved my life. 'I'll help you,' he shouted. 'Get this rope under your arms.' He passed a thick, heavy rope under my arms, tied it and flung the end to the quarterdeck of the destroyer. Three sailors slowly pulled me out of the oily mass...
Master Rooney, Metro's No. 1 asset, now 21 and draftable, is given enough rope to hang himself. He does three so-called impersonations. His Harry Lauder and George M. Cohan are scarcely distinguishable; his conception of Carmen Miranda is painful. Apparently there is nothing he cannot do, except behave himself...