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...Dover breakwater in nine hours, met a strong southwesterly tide and was three hours covering the next two miles, finally waded ashore between Dover and Folkestone after 13 hr. 29 min. Twenty-third to complete the channel swim, Blower was 2 hr. 45 min. slower than the Bohemian mechanic, Venceslas Spacek, who set the record in 1927, 1 hr. 2 min. faster than the 1926 mark of Manhattan's Gertrude Ederle who was the first woman to swim the Channel...
Back in San Francisco after frolicking at the famed annual outdoor tycoon bust of San Francisco's Bohemian Club. John P, Bickell, mining speculator and director of the Canadian Bank of Commerce and Bernard E. ("Sell 'Em Ben") Smith, celebrated Wall Street bear, backer of the Merrill-Lambie Coronation flight, were walking down Post Street toward Union Square. Said Speculator Smith: "I feel like taking a trip." Replied Banker Bickell: "That's a great idea. I'll go anywhere you want ." At that moment they were opposite the St. Francis Hotel which houses the offices...
...Yale's favorite taproom where it is traditionally sung, has echoed the old-time Whiffenpoof Song, Yale's Rudy Vallee croons it to radio millions in an arrangement of his own. It rang last week as far away as the primeval redwoods of California's Bohemian Grove, where the annual Jinks of the Bohemian Club were in progress. It also rang in a Manhattan court, where G. Schirmer, Inc. and Miller Music, Inc. were disputing which had the publication rights...
...luckless geologist having been given to vague, if not sly, business methods Somewhat the same methods also seemed to have carried over into his marital relations. While he was a student at the University of Wisconsin in 1903 he elopec with a nurse named Frances Anna Strasilipka, a Bohemian shoemaker's daughter whom he deserted five months later, leaving her with child, which died at birth That was the last Wife No. i ever heard of Washington Henry Ochsner until someone sent her a clipping reporting his death Meantime Ochsner got a divorce in Goldfield, Nev., later married...
...Science this month Professor Einstein published a brief communication entitled "Lens-like Action of a Star by the Deviation of Light in the Gravitational Field." It appeared that a Bohemian-born dishwasher named Rudi Mandl had come to him with an idea which he wanted the good grey sage of Princeton to formulate in mathematical terms. The idea: that in a certain very special circumstance the space-curvature around a star would act like an optical lens on the light from an-other star. Einstein showed that if an observer viewed two stars, one much farther away than the other...