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...coast. When a ship captain refused to take the stretcher cases aboard, Dr. Wassell stayed behind with them. The only able-bodied man among them, Dr. Wassell kept the nine wounded men alive, somehow got eight of them through the jungle to the coast and aboard the overcrowded Dutch steamer Janssens, the last United Nations ship to leave Java. The Janssens made Australia after being bombed and strafed. Dr. Wassell expected to be court-martialed, instead was given the Navy Cross...
...moved directly from Columbia Law School to the stage. Frank, then a boy soprano at Manhattan's fashionable St. Thomas Church, later had one year of business administration at Cornell, a spell working for his father. He tried cowpunching in New Mexico, stoking coal on a tramp steamer, shooting professional pool. On March 11, 1914, he eloped from Manhattan to Hoboken with Alma Muller and "she's never left...
...rough Tsushima Straits, where two-decker, train-carrying ferries ply between Japan and Korea, an Allied submarine up-periscoped, unleashed a torpedo. The missile stabbed the flank of a Jap steamer. Said the Tokyo radio: the steamer went down in "seconds," with loss of 544 persons aboard...
...Sullivan, as much seaman as airman, said no to all offers. He left Pan American, left his country. Few weeks later airmen heard that Rod Sullivan was the master of a Portuguese coastwise steamer. More recently they heard that he had gone to Africa, was working for the Liberian American Development Co. on the steaming West Coast. No one knew for certain...
...idea for the Farmers Market came one day in 1934 to Roger Dahlhjelm (rhymes with column) a dogged, rawboned Swede who was once Stanley Steamer's best auto salesman west of New York...