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With a vast fleet of Igor Sikorsky's newly perfected helicopters, Northeast planned to blanket New England from Manhattan to Fort Kent, Me., with a local airmail and express service operated from the rooftops of post offices and railroad stations in 400 cities and hamlets. Because the helicopter can fly straight up, straight down, backward, forward, horizontally, remain stationary in the air, and be brought to an immediate stop, any flat roof surface no larger than 9 by 12 ft. could serve as an adequate air station. Northeast would connect New England towns by direct helicopter service with main...
...December ten men, five women and two boys tried it again. All but three of them had homemade snowshoes. They carried a blanket apiece and "minute rations" that must last six days. The first day they made four miles. The second day they crossed the divide, but they were snowblind and had only an ounce of food a day. Their feet froze. By Christmas Eve, they had been tramping nine days, two days without food. They had lost the trail. "To go on they must live, to live they must eat, but there was no food. But there was food...
...officer personnel stationed at Harvard are included in the blanket invitation recently extended by the Cambridge Teachers' Club for an Army-Navy Officers Dance to be held in the Commander Hotel next Saturday night at 8 o'clock...
Captain John Eusden of the Crimson looked far better, as he usually does, in the 100-yard sprint than he did in the 50. The century trial heat found him in a blanket finish with Ed Hall. Mass State notable, both men being clocked at 53.8. In the final, however, Hall turned on a little more steam to win in 52.6. This time Ammon, who had finished under the same blanket as Hall and Eusden in the heat, took second, and William's Danny Case, who hadn't officially swum in two years placed third. Eusden was fourth...
...this loss there must be replacement, and some of it will come from the nation's family men. This week Selective Service opened another replacement pool. It rescinded its blanket deferment of men between 38 and 45, ordered them classified like younger men. Well knowing that these military oldsters are not suitable for frontline services, Selective Service may still use some for rear-area duty. Meanwhile it hoped that others would take to the farms, fill out another manpower...