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Besides his active prosecution of the clapper case, Apted this last spring achieved even greater fame by recovering the Sacred Cod of the State of Massachusetts, purloined from the State House by a group of Harvard ruffians...
...valiant work in the clapper case, Apted was elevated from the rank of captain of the Yard Police to that of major, and less than a year later was made a colonel in recognition of his recovery of the Seared Cod...
...Stephens brothers learned to sail off Barnstable, Cape Cod. They got their father, who owns a coal business in The Bronx, so interested in the sport that he became a vice-commodore of the Larchmont Yacht Club. Olin left M. I. T. after one year to help start, with a friend not much older than himself, the firm of Sparkman & Stephens, naval architects. Roderick got a job in a shipyard. Since Olin had the Dorade built from his own specifications in 1930, both of them have spent almost as much time on the water as at work. Consequently the Dorade...
...strengthens and hardens aluminum alloys), may be an obscure cause of rickets. When the experimenters added as little as 2% of beryllium carbonate to the diet of rats, the rats grew humpbacked, wobbled as they walked, showed practically all the other signs of rickets. No amount of cod-liver oil, viosterol, ultraviolet light or sunlight improved their condition. Best deduction is that the beryllium combines with phosphorus, which is essential for healthy bones and muscles, forms an unassimilable beryllium phosphate, thus starves the body of phosphorus...
...Gilpin, lady-charming magician in a summer vaudeville troupe, is shot on a Cape Cod bluff. Asey Mayo, shrewd Yankee with two murder solutions already to his credit, makes much of a strangled skunk, lets the murderer commit suicide...