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...Cowes Regatta, three weeks ago. Second Mate Friend of King George's cutter Britannia was drowned (TIME...
Scudding grey clouds and squally weather ushered in Cowes Week, Great Britain's chief yachting fixture. The regatta started with tragedy. Just before the first race the Britannia, King George's 38-year-old cutter journeyed for position by the starting buoy off Calshot Head, proud of her new Marconi rig with its towering hollow mast. King George was aboard, snugly dressed and eager for the day's sport. A squall struck the Britannia's vast mainsail. She heeled over and nosed into a grey comber. Right before King George's eyes the wash swept...
...find fault with it or confirm it. Essential ingredient, however, of the food is the small intestine of man, swine, dog or rabbit treated chemically. The resulting stuff he calls "K medium." Scientists who heard Professor Kendall explain his work last week were prompt with applause. Dr. Irving Samuel Cutter, Dean of Northwestern's medical school (post which Professor Kendall held 1916-24) burst out with "This discovery is as startling to the scientific world as were the discoveries of Pasteur...
...murder had been committed, he was the murderer, put to shore to telephone the sheriff's department, believing that the boat would last for another hour or so. I had. however, barely reached shore when the boat sank. Almost immediately we saw the U. S. Coast Guard cutter Crawford approaching the scene of the disaster, which lowered a boat and picked up the floating wreckage, and from the Coast Guard we learned that this man. whose name was Frank (last name unknown) and who was a fisherman, had just run over and drowned two of his fishing companions...
...When the musicians play, Pribilof fur seals?if any chance to be about?are piped to the surface. The cutter swings, the music sounds again; again the rising seals are noted. Presently the guardsmen have formed a very good idea of the size of the seal herd, a report on which is part of their duty...