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...Cape Horn traffic. Captain de Cloux would like to be a sailor on the moon because the moon is smaller than the Earth to sail around. Outward bound for Australia after the 1929 grain race, he was sailing the barque Herzogin Cecilie when she rolled over on her beam ends. He managed to right her and sail on. In the 1932 race he sailed the Parma through Horn hurricanes, South Atlantic ice and North Atlantic calm into Falmouth Bay in the winning time of 103 days, beating 19 other skippers, nine of whom he had trained himself. About that voyage...
With a strong beam wind from the Southwest, the three Varsity crews got off to a perfect start. Harvard took an almost imperceptible lead in the first fifteen stroke, but after a minute of rowing, the Penn crew had gained the lead by one or two feet. with Navy trailing the Crimson by less than a dock. From the end of the second minute to the middle of the eighth, the prows of the three shells were within ten fact of each other, with the Naval Academy always in the rear...
When President Roosevelt opens the whole show May 27, he will use a beam of starlight from Arcturus instead of a bottle of milk, a beam that started towards the earth the year Chicago last held a world's fair. That was in 1893, only 40 years ago, but the party Rufus Dawes and his brother Charles and their Chicago friends are giving this year to (they hope) 50 million guests, is "A Century of Progress," referring to Chicago's founding...
...White House, asked the President if he could officiate June 1. The President was sorry but that day he would be handing out diplomas at Annapolis. How about May 27? "That's bully!" declared President Roosevelt. For the opening the President will push a button connected with a beam of starlight which left Arcturus during Chicago's last World's Fair 40 years ago. ¶ Last week President Roosevelt made the following appointments: Dave Hennen Morris, New York socialite lawyer, to be Ambassador to Belgium-; Sam Gilbert Bratton, Senator from New Mexico...
...dock for nearly a half-mile run two standard-gauge railroad tracks terminating in two mooring circles, 4,000 ft. around. A mobile telescopic mooring mast, which can extend from a height of 77 ft. to 160 ft. will haul the airship along the tracks. A null "stern beam." built something like a flat car, anchors the ship's stern. Sunnyvale is a San Franciscan triumph over San Diego which fought bitterly for the air base. Businessmen of San Francisco and neighboring towns raised $470,000 to buy the 1,000-acre Sunnyvale tract, gave the land...