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...field. Damage : two bent propellers, a crumpled nose. Unhurt, Pilot Neely discovered that Lieut. John O. Neal and Private Henry Zielinski had parachuted safely down, three miles away. Unseen by Harold Neely, the fourth man in the ship jumped, fumbled with mittened hands at the rip cord of his chute, pulled it too late. On a barbed wire fence, 100 yards from the spot where the plane landed, farmers found the body of Corporal Kenneth Seamans...
Among the Eliot squad seeing action were Chute, Ossaua, T. Miller, Hull, A. Miller, and Henderson. On the Dudley list were: Regan, White, Durant, Harris, Clay, MacDonald, Santesuosso, and Hawthorne...
Belmont Park has long been the prettiest and toniest race track in the U. S. Its wide-sweeping racing strip (only 1½-mile track in the U. S.), its picturesque steeplechase course in the infield, its straightaway course (Widener Chute) for wobbly-legged two-year-olds unaccustomed to maneuvering around turns, and its mile training track make it not only the most elaborate racing plant in the U. S. but also ideally suited for classic distance races like the Belmont Stakes (1½ miles), Jockey Club Gold Cup (2 miles), Lawrence Realization (if miles). But, because of its vastness...
...President Vanderbilt last week contemplated shrinking Belmont's traditional racing strip to 1⅛ miles-the same size as the tracks at Saratoga, Hialeah, Washington Park and Arlington Park. Whether the proposed track will be ready for the 1940 spring meeting is problematical. The fate of the Widener Chute, also unpopular with railbirds because the horses start almost a mile from the stands and finish at an angle, is as yet unknown...
...these new systems of appointment in themselves do nothing to alleviate the strain on present instruction which was created when the assistant professors were sent down the chute last spring. At that time several departments were left under-staffed in vitally important fields, and the situation can be corrected only by rehiring several of these men--of proven brilliance--where they are needed. The new policies provide the instruments by which this therapy can be accomplished, for the men can be taken on as additional associate professors...