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Captain Henrik K. Carlsen's 13 day struggle against the sea which ended in the sinking of his vessel, The Flying Enterprise, was today termed "one of the great stories of heroism on the sea" by Robert G. Albion, Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs...
...disputes go to die, and then gave Western diplomats a few more gray hairs by hinting that events "were about to take their course" in Southeast Asia. It was small wonder that people and newspapers took their minds off these depressing facts for a while to be with Captain Carlsen in his lone and valiant fight against the sea in his cracked, listing, storm-tossed "Flying Enterprise...
Hobart Lerner '40, and Sparks Sorlien '38 are entered in the 300. With six or seven in a heat, these boys will have diffculty getting the lead at the start, let alone keeping it with such stars as Roderkirchen, O'Sullivan, and Carlsen running. Sorlien is also entered in the dash event. He and Bobbie Gammons '39 will have to beat Marty Glickman, Ben Johnson, and Eulace Peacock to win, and observers are not overly optimistic...
...record stood unbroken until fortnight ago, when Lee Carey of Laurel, Iowa ripped the husks off 2,779 lb. Farmer Carey's record lasted three days. Then Leo Oeckenfels zipped the husks off 2,797 lb. Farmer Oeckenfels' record lasted five days. Then at Audubon, Iowa Elmer Carlsen, a husky husker of 24, laid his hands on an ear of corn and-whisk! When the regulation 80 minutes were over, he had stripped 2,824 lb., an average of 35 lb. a minute. For the third time in nine days the world's record had been shattered...
Daily the women gather at the pump to fetch water-and to discuss the myriad affairs of the small town, for in a town where only Blacksmith Carlsen and the Postmaster are religious, there is plenty to discuss. The parson may be busy enough christening and confirming, but like as not the christened child has no right to the name, the confirmed is no longer the virgin she should be. There was always a new suspicious twist in the affairs of the carpenter, the fishermen, the doctor, the pompous Consul. And Oliver, swashbuckling sailor returned legless from a storm...