Word: beached
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cast is as follows: Ernest V. E. Blacque '34 Andre J. S. Plaut '33 L'Abbe Northrop Beach '34 Carteret W. A. C. Miller III '32 Germain R. C. Sullivan '35 Julien J. D. Kernan '34 Francois F. F. Silver '34 Jacqueline Lorraine Warner La Marquise de Juvigny Pauline Shaw Sophie Many Loring Lucion Elizabeth Cram Rose Peggy Barney La Baronne Beatrice Clough Christianne Mary Cleveland Solange Katrina Hartt Louise Elizabeth Morlson
Harold J. L. ("Bert") Hinkler, who has a knack of getting small airplanes into extraordinary places, took a Puss Moth out of North Beach, L. I. one afternoon last week, set it down on the polo grounds of Kingston, Jamaica next morning. The 1,800-mi. flight was the first nonstop from New York, and Pilot Hinkler's was the first land plane to touch Jamaican soil, previous visitors having been amphibians or seaplanes...
...must land like that when your Big Boss is your passenger. Last week Lieut. Elwood Quesada (of the Army's original Question Mark endurance team) had that experience over Long Island. His passenger, Frederick Trubee Davison, Assistant Secretary of War for Aeronautics, wanted to land at North Beach to keep a Manhattan engagement. Over the airport Lieut. Quesada pushed the pumphandle that should lower the retractable landing gear, found to his horror that it would not budge; the wheels remained uselessly folded into the thick low wing. Lieut. Quesada picked up the speaking-tube. Try a landing...
...life ashore, discovered the abandoned camp of three shipwrecked sailors whose yawl West Wind sailed from San Diego last December. A note stated that the castaways had struck into the interior 48 hr. earlier in search of food because they had exhausted the supply of coconuts near the beach, and that they would return about Nov. 4. The Camargo circled the island, firing her one-pound gun, blowing her whistle, got no response from shore. Then Mr. Fleischmann radioed the U. S. naval base at Balboa, C. Z., whence the gunboat Sacramento was despatched to Cocos Island with medical supplies...
...rest of the cast consisting of upperclassmen and one Freshman is as follows: Northrup Beach '34, V. E. Blacque '34, J. B. Jackson '32, J. D. Kernan '34, W. A. C. Miller III '32, J. S. Plaut '33, O. W. Robbins '34, F. F. Silver '34, R. C. Sullivan...