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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Shubert--"Captain Jinks", with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOARDS AND BILLBOARDS | 3/30/1926 | See Source »

...back in Fairbanks, misfortune, which the week before had reached out with a grip more icy than the winter winds, maintained its hold upon the main expedition. Originally, Captain Wilkins had planned to lead three monoplanes into the north?two triple-engined Fokkers and a single-motored Liberty. One of the Fokkers was burned up in January during its final tests at the Ford experimental field near Detroit. The other Fokker (the Detroiter) and the Liberty plane?dubbed Alaskan?had reached Fairbanks safely. Snowplows and road-rollers had labored for days ironing out a take-off and landing field...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: In Alaska | 3/29/1926 | See Source »

...them will greatly lag. Harvard has in her strong material this year an added reason for wishing to continue the old system. K. S. Pfaffman '24 is coming to Cambridge this week to confer with W. J. Bingham '16, Director of Athletics, and J. F. W. Whitbeck '27, captain of the tennis team, on the possibilities of arranging the trip, especially of persuading Yale to continue the old policy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: H-Y TENNIS INVASION OF GREAT BRITAIN THREATENED | 3/29/1926 | See Source »

...Captain Elect Wins by Fall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THREE CHAMPIONS RETAIN UNIVERSITY MAT CROWNS | 3/29/1926 | See Source »

Defaults in the 115-pound, the 175-pound, and the unlimited classes by all but one entry, account for the fact that there were no final bouts in these classes. The most interesting and exciting bout of the evening was that in which H. R. Wood '27, captain-elect of next year's wrestling team, defeated A. W. Craven 3L. Although the undergraduate wrestler won by a fall in six minutes and 15 seconds, it was only after the hardest kind of a fight. The summary...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THREE CHAMPIONS RETAIN UNIVERSITY MAT CROWNS | 3/29/1926 | See Source »

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