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Earlier in the week, government landing parties had seized control of islands dotting the mouth of the Siak River, and captured the oil terminus of Dumai. On Bengkalis Island a rebel platoon watched interestedly as an army transport steamed leisurely up to the dock like an excursion steamer, tied up, and disgorged a file of government troops who sauntered down the gangplank like tourists. The rebel platoon leader surrendered and everyone sat down...
When the Harvard-Yale team, chosen from the winners of the annual track meet between the two schools, sailed from New York on July 6, 1899, the Boston Herald proclaimed, "College Team Sails. Harvard and Yale Off for England as One. Wildly Cheered as the Steamer Moves...
...Prime Minister has never been a man to sit long behind a desk. For three whirlwind weeks before the elections (which would last for almost three weeks) he swept across the nation, traveling by jeep, river steamer, sky-blue Cadillac, and his own Russian Ilyushin plane Messenger of the Clouds (the gift of Bulganin and Khrushchev) to address crowds that sometimes numbered...
...streets of New Haven, Conn., where his father sold coal, oil and wood from a horse-drawn wagon, Podoloff seldom found time for fun and games. He worked his way through Yale (the 1913 class of Averell Harriman and Cole Porter) by selling tickets for an excursion steamer and playing clarinet in a band, went on to a law degree, and then drifted into real estate. One day he found himself owner of both the New Haven Arena and the ice-hockey team that played there. Soon, with other arena owners, he was looking around for a sport to fill...
...publicized jazz weddings, uniting couples who had found romance in Roseland's violet twilight. His finest inspiration, until it was banned by the police, was the dance marathon. To avoid the wrath of Mayor Jimmy Walker, he once carted a truckload of still-dancing marathoners to an excursion steamer and took them out beyond the three-mile limit, where they all became violently sick at the rail...