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...days after the Erfdeel test, the South African Press Association flashed still more exciting news. A test bore on another farm near Erfdeel had reportedly assayed out even richer. At this, Jo'burg's frantic speculators ran up the Free State Gold Areas shares to a high of $11.28-and Promoter Milne's paper profits were estimated at somewhere between $8 million and $20 million...
...both the Jo'burg and London exchanges the great gold boom collapsed. Free State shares, which had started dropping on news of the false press report, plummeted to $2.62. It remained to be seen how much gold Milne's claim would finally yield. But Milne did not seem worried. He gave a cocktail party for 500 guests and expressed the hope that he could soon arrange for "quotation of my shares on the American market...
...window, a pair of rocks in mid-Atlantic called Peter & Paul was all there was to see below. They talked, drank cocktails, ate from trays, played gin rummy, and waited for the ocean to end at Dakar. Some flew the new air trade route south to "Jo'burg" (Johannesburg). Others went north to Lisbon where they found the almond trees blooming by day and the mournful fado echoing in the cafes at night...
...Freedman (H); third, Burns (BU): time--56.7. 150-yd. Individual Mcdley Relay won by Wheeler (H); second, Taylor (BU); third, Fearn (BU); time--1:57.4. Dive won by Callery (BU); second, Sandberg (H); third Johnson (H): winner's points--66.5 150-yd. Medley Relay won by Harvard(Dorris, Hurwitz, Burg): time--1:32.6. 200-yd. Freestyle Relay won by BU (Eldridge, Gagnon, Sheehy, Read): time...
Nevertheless, in the grey, red-&-gold Burg chapel, where once the Emperor followed Mass, Viennese still congregate every Sunday, and they are joined-in cosmopolitan peace-by some occupation officers who have a taste for prayer and music. There, violins and the sweet young voices of the Sängerknaben still make the most beautiful music in the honor of God that is made anywhere...