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...Bermuda, up from the new airport on coral-girt DarreH's Island rose the four-motored, 18-ton flying boat Cavalier for its first test flight since arriving in sections from Great Britain two months ago. For 26 minutes the big craft drummed over the harbor at 185 m.p.h. with only its crew aboard. In a few weeks, Imperial Airways will start it buzzing back & forth to the U. S. in a series of tests preparatory to passenger service this summer...
...Freshman like a grand canyon, sometimes. Until a day or two ago we didn't realize how ripe and mellow, free from care and worry, three years and odd months at Harvard can make a fellow. With our thesis half completed and a ticket on the Monarch of Bermuda in the drawer, life was nothing but a brave new world of dreams. Yet suddenly a tale of horror struck a note of tragedy into our symphony of pleasure, stark tragedy crashed mightily about our cars...
...scarlet fever, typhoid fever, or whooping cough. Only ships regularly in the following services may use radio pratique: between New York and European ports, between East and West coasts of the U. S. by way of the Panama Canal, between New York and the Canal, between New York and Bermuda or ports in the West Indies, and ships of such services which make seasonal cruises between New York and Bermuda or the West Indies...
...themselves, but as an integral part of the history of English colonial expansion. Concluding that U.S. history cannot be deeply understood unless England's experiences with all her colonies are taken into account. Professor Andrews studies the colonies that remained loyal as well as those that rebelled, with Bermuda, Newfoundland, the Barbadoes receiving almost as much attention as the ones that eventually became the original 13 States. If some U. S. heroes seem to shrink in stature as a result, and some familiar English enemies to disappear entirely, the net gain is a dense, panoramic picture of a century...
...pensions when they begin to come due in 1942, but 26,000,000 other U. S. citizens doubtless will. Among them is John David Sweeney Jr., blue-eyed, sturdy, unmarried, 23. After graduating last June from Princeton, where he belonged to Colonial Club, he took a month off in Bermuda, then went to work as shipping clerk in his father's business the Royal Eastern Electrical Supply Co. of Brooklyn. He lives with his family in a 15-room house in suburban New Rochelle, N. Y. Like his father, mother and younger brother, he voted for Landon last month...