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Sirs: ... I was on board the Prince Henry of the Canada Steamship Lines returning from Bermuda to Boston on Friday night and was able to get the radio operator to tune in on "The March of Time." About half of the passengers listened in and it was thoroughly enjoyed by all-especially since we had been riding a hurricane for nearly two days. I am sorry I cannot furnish you with a picture of about 50 or 60 passengers huddled around the great mass of furniture and rugs that were upset as a result of the gale we had been...
...Henry Hilgard Villard, son of Editor Oswald Garrison Villard (The Nation.) He escaped unhurt, with passport and money, lost only his luggage. With William Vincent Astor, Ichthyologist Charles Haskins Townsend, nine guests and several thousand kingfish and sea bass aboard, the Astor yacht Nonrmahal sailed from Manhattan for Bermuda. The fish, which are indigenous to the Atlantic Coast, were to be dumped overboard near Bermuda, to acclimate them to warm waters in hope of producing tropical species...
...Hamilton, Bermuda, William Leach suddenly left his armchair to get a book. Just then a bolt of lightning came down the chimney, destroyed the chair...
Died. Reginald Aubrey Fessenden, 65, physicist and inventor; of heart disease; in Hamilton, Bermuda. He pioneered the development of radio telephony, was credited with inventing the radio-compass, electrically-driven battleships, numerous submarine safety devices...
Juan Terry Trippe, president of Pan American, took pains to mention last week that the work in the Arctic in no way indicated abandonment of his company's other projected transatlantic route via Bermuda and Azores...