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...fingers, toes and the interdigital folds, the nails. The feet and hands are the most common sites of infection. Small blisters form and the skin erodes. W. F. Young Inc. of Springfield, Mass., makers of the proprietary germicide Absorbine Jr., taking a lesson from Listerine's Halitosis and Life Buoy Soap's Body Odor, have for the sake of advertising and popular education been translating tinea or ringworm as Athlete's Foot...
General Italo Balbo, whose famed triads leaped the Atlantic to Natal last January, was nearly drowned last week in the Bay of Naples when his seaplane struck a submerged buoy in taking off, and sank. Two months ago the general's adjutant, Col. Umberto Maddalena, and two flyers of the squadron were killed when a propeller snapped and tore through the cabin of their plane (TIME, March...
...along with this intellectual emancipation, a highly desirable factor in progressive institution, is placed side by side the incongruous system of compulsory class attendance. It is the ever-present life-buoy thrown out by the suicide, who generally does not avail himself...
...Johnson brothers, Graham and Lowndes, of Easton, Md., won last year in New Orleans with Eel. The boats were Stars?the most popular class of racing sloops in the world, 22 ft. 7½ in. long, Marconi rigged. Sometimes they went windward and leeward off Gibson Island Clubhouse, to a buoy and back, and sometimes around a little triangular course in which they turned eight buoys although the course totaled only 10? mi. Stars are fast in light airs, but on the Chesapeake they had two days of strong racing weather. On the last morning the bay was choppy and little...
...took a long time coming into the starboard tack and heading for the line, but still he was too soon and had to lose position running along the line waiting for the whistle. So Captain Heard won the start again. The first leg was to windward, to a buoy off Point Judith. Both crossed the line closehauled on the starboard tack with Shamrock about 200 yd. to windward. A minute after crossing the line Heard took the port tack and Vanderbilt followed him. Enterprise was footing faster, pointing higher as they headed toward Narragansett. Shamrock was far behind...