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...their races. At the start, Harvard's stroke, Sam Drury Jr., strapping big son of the strapping big headmaster of St. Paul's School, got his beat up to 37, splashed out to a lead of three quarters of a length. Yale, pulling a shade slower, crept up. The shells were even at the half-mile mark. At the mile, Yale was a third of a length ahead. The crews settled down into the rhythm of the race with Yale, smoothly stroked by Johnny Jackson, clearing its puddles by six feet at 30 strokes a minute, with Harvard...
These facts have given him an interest in society, economics and world affairs unknown to his predecessors. In 1914 the War crept on a college generation unaware. All the senior of 1924 had to worry about was which job to take. The undergraduate of 1934 knows where the next war may come, and why, and who will suffer by it. He is grimly determined that if the world has no place for him, the world and not he will have to change...
...replace Russia's already shattered Pacific fleet all that was left of the imperial Russian navy sailed from the Baltic under command of Admiral Ziniry Petrovich Rozhestvensky. One half cut through the Mediterranean while the other rounded the Cape of Good Hope. The halves met off Annam and crept cautiously up the China coast...
...After that cruise, when the party returned to Miami, Madman Joe Zangara emptied his revolver at the President-Elect, mortally felled Mayor Cermak of Chicago who stood beside his car. In the car behind sat Vincent Astor, Raymond Moley and Frederic Kernochan. A few moments before as the cars crept through the throng Mr. Astor had said to the others of his great and good friend: "Any crank might take a shot at him. I don't like this. It's too dangerous...
...slight rustling was heard on the edge of the crowd and those who watched closely saw detecting at its very height. The worthy Colonel emerged most silently from the bushes, sneaked up to the statue and peered under the veil. Apparently disappointed he dropped it back into place and crept off. The search goes...