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...heads," she said, "we were in the water. When we tried to sit up we were blown down again by the wind. . . . When we found the warship we all stood up and cheered and shouted for the good old British Navy. The Navy men helped us up a rope ladder -first an arm and then a leg-and I could not help thinking how funny it was. The sailors gave us rum to drink. It was horrible stuff, but I suppose it did us good." Already safe aboard the destroyer was the fourth member of the family, her four-year...
Driving through London last week His Royal Highness the Duke of Kent, handsomest member of the Royal Family, came dutifully to a halt in front of a rope stretched across a street. From it hung a sign which in the past fortnight has become a familiar sight in many parts of the city: "DANGER-UNEXPLODED BOMB...
...campaign of 1940, and 2) the precedent set for executive action without approval of Congress. Snorted William Allen White, chairman of the Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies: "The only objection seems to be that Roosevelt didn't cross Niagara Falls on a tight rope, leading a brass band. When you're negotiating a horse trade you can't take all the neighbors into your confidence...
Boyer hurried down the mountain to summon aid from Seattle. Through the afternoon, night and next morning, Faye Plank sat alone on a six-inch ledge, fighting sleep and listening to the noisy growl of the waterfalls. She had to watch the rope and hold it jammed in a crevice with her boot heels. Said she: "I could hear Anne down below. At first she was just moaning. But when it got dark she began calling. . . . Night lasted a long time, but the early morning was the worst. . . ." At 10:30 that morning, sleepless Karl Boyer and the rescuers...
They clambered gingerly to her, strapped her to a stretcher. They secured the stretcher with a long rope which they snubbed to ice axes rammed into the snow. All afternoon six men carried the stretcher while three others paid out the rope, foot by foot, then found another purchase for the axes and eased the stretcher a little farther down the mountain. Barefoot, lest his ironshod boots slip on the rocks, another rescuer climbed to exhausted Faye Plank, got her safely down as well. A doctor at Bellingham discovered that Anne Cedarquist had a punctured lung, a fractured shoulder, severe...