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...Nassau blew her siren. Police boats and a tug swarmed around. Ropes and advice were thrown to the swimming bull, who submerged when capture seemed near, to come up snorting, blowing and swimming further away. After one such disappearance the pursuers gave the animal up, thought it had drowned. Hours later, a fisherman inbound off Sea Gate, some seven miles from the bull's dive, beheld a horned creature swimming out to sea with the tide. The fisherman approached, threw an anchor rope, caught and towed the beast, still belligerent, to shallow water at Coney Island...
...overvividly alive that the images cluster into meaningless visual hurricanes or swirl away on independent sprees, Cain and Artem is not far behind the great Amkino products of the past. Best shot: the tug of war between two local strongmen, who, each tied to one end of a rope, stand on opposite houseroofs and try to pull each other...
...cowboy until 1905 when he went on tour with Col. Zachary Mulhall's Wild West Show. One night in Madison Square Garden a steer broke loose and jumped over the rails into the audience. Rogers roped it and was given so much publicity that he was booked in Keith's Union Square Theatre in an act of his own. Sitting on a pony in the middle of the stage he chewed gum, spun a rope, cracked jokes. Later, in the Follies, where he appeared without the pony, he chewed and drawled for 20 minutes his homely, immensely witty comments...
...asea, enroute for her Switzerland home. Famed is her conversation among friends for its bite, epigrams (sometimes unprintable). Her best witticisms are private. Lately in England she wrote that she had been at a luncheon party "at which all five sexes were represented." She is divorced. Other books: Enough Rope, Sunset...
Herr Dyhrenfurth's own climbing career began when he was nine and boasts over 700 Alpine peaks, with only one serious accident. (Nine years ago a rope broke, allowed him to plunge 21 feet...