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Back in the thirties rugby was an accepted sport in Harvard-Yale-Princeton environs. The high point of the rugby season in those days was the annual jaunt to Bermuda over Easter vacation, when English teams vied for an "international collegiate championship" with their American equals. The Bermuda Athletic Association served as general host at the parties and banquets and likewise had an interest in the exchange of trophies...
...opposition this year a Harvard rugby team can certainly depend on Yale, with the strong chance of meeting Army and Princeton squads as well. The Elis last year stole all the American rugby glory by being invited to Bermuda, where they defeated two Royal Navy teams, 9 to 0 and 16 to 3, tied the Gloucestershire Regiment squad, and lost their final game to the Bermuda A.A. by virtue of one free-kick which the Bermudans placed between the goalpost to win 3 to 0. To match this, Harvard must look back to the 1943-44 season when a team...
...Bound from the Azores to Bermuda, a four-engined British South American Airways transport radioed an 11 p.m. "All's well." Then silence. At week's end, despite the greatest peacetime air search of the Atlantic, no vestige of the plane had been found. Aboard were a crew of six and 21 passengers, including Australian-born, battle-greyed Air Marshal Sir Arthur Coningham, 52, who commanded the Allied tactical air forces at the invasion of Normandy...
...view of our bringing up, our large and conservative (at times) family were astonished to learn that Mrs. Cleon Throckmorton had become a smoker of big, black cigars at the opera, particularly in view of the fact that for some months-past she has been in Bermuda, where she still is, with her husband, the scenic designer, who is designing the first legitimate theater on the island. Throck may be burning the midnight oil and smoking big, black cigars, but Juliet, never...
Promising Trial. Last summer the flying tankers, rising from a field in the Azores, refueled 21 nonstop flights from London to Bermuda. Every contact went smoothly. If the North Atlantic trials show the same excellent performance, Sir Alan predicts that many airlines will adopt his system...