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Moment of My Life
Bickford the Screen, Danger Runner
Charles Bickford
RAMSEY
Known in Hollywood as "Bad Boy Bickford" because he does and says what he likes, he has had little chance to rest ' as below ) at his Santa Monica home, since his intense portrayal in "Dynamite" (right)
R H Louise
that "dignified" city of Boston. Then along came the War. The gang all wanted to go — and most of tliem did. I got along great, while I was over in France, hccaiise I suppose "most everyone could see (just by one look at my face) that I was having the time of my life. Ir was a great adventure. A lawless sort of law in the l)reaking!
A few months after returning from that CJreat Adventure, I was introduced to another adventure nnn-running. in rather an accidental wav. . . .
A Run-in With Pirates
TWO of the hoys and myself decided to spend the day on the ocean, doing a little yachting. We had figured It to be a stag affair, but the owner of the boat brought along his girl-friend. After we had been out about three or four hours, we sighted a forty-foot speed launch apparently in distress. We got their signal from a distance and turned in their direction to see if we might be of some assistance. When we drew alongside, the four men in the other boat began throwing ropes onto our deck in order to hold the two crafts fast. We even helpfd them!
I hen the hell broke loose — and. incidentally, one of the most dangerous moments of my lifel
The four of them, all big, burly cut-throats, came lunging onto our deck with dark scowls and much strong cursing. One of them brandished a large club and demanded that we turn over the ship to them — together with the girl. That was the pay-off"! Fists commenced to fly and men began to fall.
We were outnumbered and outweighed by them, but, as luck would have it, two of them had been drinking a bit of their own cargo and weren't so steady as they should have been. The owner of the boat was the first to feel the strength of the pirates; a swift jab of the club caught him behind the collar and laid him out temporanlv.
Five Unconscious Men
IN the meantime my partner and I were having a hot time uith the three racketeers who had chosen to mix it with us. lie got in one very neat blow just as the brawl started and the man who took it on the chin fell backwards on his head against the anchor — cracking his skull (Covtittufd nv pn^^ q f)
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