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Churning the water with their feet as the sharks slashed at them, the other terror-stricken sailors drove off their tormentors. Finally Lieut. A. C. Keller spotted the survivors from his naval plane, dropped smoke bombs and plunged down in dangerous power dives which frightened off the sharks long enough for the Mendota to reach the scene, pull the exhausted mariners from the water 40 miles from the grave of the luckless Tzenny Chandris...
...Balish's first partner was a truant officer. A poverty-stricken boy from Manhattan's East Side, Ben at the age of ten worked up a thriving trade in spoiled pineapples which he bought in bulk at extremely cheap prices (sometimes $5 for a shipload) and sold by pushcart along the docks. By the time he was 13 he had $5,300, spent it all buying his parents a home. Then he noticed that Jewish onion buyers were having a horrid time in the onion market on Pier 17. Onion salesmen were mostly boisterous Irishmen who loved...
...Leviathan sinks," was the cry that was circulating on the river yesterday afternoon as sixteen wet Yardlings were ferried back to Newell boat house from the stricken ship...
...weather will lessen the cholera danger and do more good than all the doctors in China!" was the hope all Shanghai voiced. Correspondents were startled to see internes working tirelessly over plague victims who to a layman's eye showed no sign of life whatever, although many thus stricken have been saved. Marveled a newsman who had been out on an ambulance: "They all looked dead...
...Hickory spent his last eight years trying vainly to pay off the fancy debts piled up by his adopted son Andrew Jr. (one of eleven or more raised and educated by the Jacksons). On his deathbed, calling for his spectacles in an effort to make out the stricken faces around him, the old man whispered staunchly: "I hope and trust to meet you all in Heaven, both white and black. . . ." But he gave no sign that he repented of having said, not long before, that he only regretted he had not been able to shoot Henry Clay and hang John...