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...told in his On the Bottom the story of the months of perseverance, courage and mechanical in genuity by which the expedition succeeded. Captain King did his administration job so well that the Navy gave him, as well as Commander Ellsberg, a Distinguished Service Medal. When the S-4 sank off Provincetown in 1927 he again led a successful salvaging expedition, got an other D. S. M., this time with a gold star...
...Ononcock. Va., month ago, Harry Layfleld teed a golf ball, struck it with his mashie, made a hole-in-one on a 105-yd. hole. Within 30 days Golfer Layfield teed the same ball, struck it with the same mashie, sank his tee shot on the same hole...
...Commissioner appeared, and Mr. Harriman, wearing a white hospital smock tied behind his neck, was arraigned in his bed. A nurse raised him up and, taking a fountain pen, he signed a $25,000 bail bond. "Is that all?" he demanded peremptorily. "Then good evening, gentlemen," and sank back weakly on his pillow...
...minutes before the game ended, Oregon State, trying desperately to catch up, had slipped farther behind, 26 to 23. Red MacDonald. State guard, holed a long basket, but 20 sec. before the final gun Oregon was still a point ahead. Stevens, Oregon guard, fouled MacDonald; MacDonald sank the penalty shot to tie the score, gave Oregon State the chance it needed to win, 32 to 27, in the extra period...
Once the party started to map a mirage. Another time they saw marmots pair off, stand "erect on their hind legs, grasping each other with their front paws, and dance slowly about exactly as though they were waltzing." Once a car partially sank in quicksand. Another time, in an old quicksand bed they found the four legs of a baluchitherium, largest animal that ever lived. Each leg was as big around as a fat man. A speck of white in the prevailing red of the desert sufficed to indicate a partially exposed fossil. After a little practice the men spotted...