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...first of four comp heats on Tuesday, a B-School student named Robinson jumped to an early lead and looked like a sure thing--good form, plenty of wind, oar, blades flashing--until he smacked bow-on into the Western Avenue bridge. (He tried again in the last trial and placed second...
...bulging cruiser stern the Queen represents a blending of many ancient and modern arts. Her builders had to wrestle with the problem of constructing a hull of titan strength to withstand almost unimaginable strains as the seas pass under her 1,020 feet, lifting her first by the bow, then amidships, then astern. The propulsion engineers used the power of 50 locomotives to drive the four screws, each 20 feet across and weighing 35 tons, which are, nevertheless, so delicately mounted that they can be turned by a man's hand...
...wheelhouse, there is finger-tip steering with a complex series of superhuman power boosters to swing the 140-ton rudder through churning seas. If the watch officer chooses, a gyro pilot will relieve the helmsman entirely and keep the ship on course. No leadsman need stand in the bow to take soundings, for the navigator has an acoustic-electric fathometer to tell him, at the press of a button, how much water is beneath the hull. Radar eyes pierce night...
...specimen is still lacking to make the collection complete, admitted Rothenberg yesterday. For months he has been passing the Lampoon building, enviously staring at the magnificent wishbone concealed beneath the plumage of a second theskiornia which adorns the Bow Street tile palacer...
With these bitter words the editors of the Episcopal weekly Living Church last week publicly undertook to "bow our head in shame for our own church." Their bitterness and shame were intensified because they had printed an editorial a few months before, taking Roman Catholics to task for the same sort of laxity. Now they had to eat their words: two Episcopal clergymen had just married divorcees -in church, with the permission of their bishops. The brides & grooms: thrice-married Elizabeth Donner Roosevelt Winsor, first wife of Elliott Roosevelt, and the Rev. Benedict H. Hanson of Baltimore; Isabelle W. Morrill...