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...Outing Club has set up a series of handicaps to give equal chances to balloon-tired, thin-tired, touring and racing bikes. The contest will start at 10 a.m.; afterwards the competitors will have a picnic and games with the Wellesley girls...
Last year, John Hart '52 won the race on an old balloon-tired bike with a time of 48 minutes...
...crowd of about 2,000 gathered at 1 p.m. yesterday to watch the Lampoon's attempted balloon ascension to the moon. The time seemed auspicious, the winds and temperature correct; but the attempt came to naught when a hidden marksman blasted the balloon to smithereens just before the take...
While Douglas C. Bunce '50 President of the Lampoon, read congratulatory telegrams purportedly from Douglas MacArthur, Jules Verne, and others, the balloon was inflated with helium. Meanwhile, the crowd continued to grow at the conjunction of Bow and Mt. Auburn Streets. Bunce announced that Charles C. Osborne '52, well-known swimmer and aeronaut, would arrive with a motorcycle escort to make the free-balloon flight...
Just as the balloon was ready to be attached to its basket for the take-off, a person or persons hidden in the dense crowd exploded the balloon. Some observers speculated that the shot intended for the "accidental shooting" of the Nicaraguan ambassador (which did not come off) may have done the defeating. After a brief murmur of disappointment, the crowd dissipated...