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...spanking breeze was blowing up one day last fortnight as the schooner Livonia nosed out to sea past Plana Cay near Acklin Island, Bahamas. At the helm was Rt. Rev. Roscow George Shedden, Anglican Bishop of Nassau, master and owner of the Livonia. A hearty amateur yachtsman, a onetime (1909-19) captain in the British Royal Fusiliers, Bishop Shedden has since 1919 been spiritual lord of the Bahama, Turk and Caicos Islands-a diocese embracing 13,122 church members, 83 churches, extending some 175,000 square miles of land and sea. To visit his flock he had embarked...
...m.p.h. wind, despite her own admitted fright and premonition of failure, she took off last week from Havana to return across the Gulf. She never reached Miami. Planes and boats combed the Gulf, found no trace. Then, after three days silence, she cabled her mother from Nassau, Bahama Islands, that a gale had forced her to land on Andros, largest of the Bahamas...
Submarine photographs, taken by J. E. Williamson, the originator of undersea motion pictures, will be shown in connection with his lecture on "Beauty and Tragedy Under the Sea" which he will give at the Harvard Union tonight at 8 o'clock. The pictures represent the ocean-floor around the Bahama Islands...
...seventeenth he was all even. He sank his approach shot on the eighteenth for a birdie 2. Farrell's 15-foot putt hit the back of the cup and bounced out. Sarazen, who goes to Nassau yearly for a sunburn, had won the open championship of the Bahama Islands. In St. Augustine, Fla., Glenna Collett, favorite daughter of Providence, R. I., and of Robert Collett, onetime six-day bicycle rider, outdrove Virginia Van Wie on nearly every tee to win the women's Florida East Coast championship...
Hours later came a vagrant radio report, unconfirmed, that Flyer Redfern had been sighted by a steamer 300 miles east of the Bahama Islands, on his course and about 500 miles out. After that, silence...