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SIRS. With full appreciation of your many complimentary references to Senator Robinson's distinguished public service and with forgiveness for your uncontrollable penchant for shooting pins at every balloon of appreciation even including those blown up by you, I venture to challenge the accuracy of your statement "Even his friends admit that he ... is slipping politically at home." As former State Commander of the American Legion, as State Finance Chairman of the Smith-Robinson Campaign in 1928 and as present State Director of the National Emergency Council I have had many opportunities to become acquainted with the public estimate...
...windows; offices closed early. By midnight most of Rapid City and the surrounding countryside had trekked southwest to the rim of Moonlight Valley, a woodsy pockmark in the Black Hills. There a hushed throng of 50,000 stared down into a floodlit bowl as Explorer II, latest & greatest stratosphere balloon, was made ready for its first ascent. Year ago Explorer I, latest & greatest of its day, had lurched reluctantly skyward from the same natural amphitheatre near Rapid City. At 60,000 ft. the great bag had popped open, plummeted in tatters. Saving themselves by last minute parachuting, the three balloonists...
...impatiently, waiting for good weather on high. Last week it came. Joyfully, the camp went to work. Without shoes and wearing cotton gloves to protect the rubbery fabric, 300 soldiers gingerly smoothed out the bag, examined every inch for adhesions. After supper they started valving in gas. Soon the balloon humped in the middle, commenced to rise. By 3 a. m. with all the gas in, the bag was a swaying 300-ft. column glistening in the floodlights. The gondola was wheeled beneath. To the crowd along the rim above it looked as if everything were about complete...
Only three of the four scheduled events were run off, darkness forcing the elimination of the feature event, the ten-mile race. The spot-landing, balloon-bursting, and bombing contests only were held...
...bombing Arthur W. Nelson '38, pilot, and J. Keith Davis '38, observer, finished up in second position, while Wilbur L. Cummings, Jr. '37, was the only other Harvard man to take a place, grabbing third in the balloon bursting...