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...columns of his exploits and plans for exploits. About nearly all of them there was an element of bravery and an element of bravura. He swam the Panama Canal (in installments), followed, on foot, the course of 1) Cortez' conquest of Mexico, 2) Balboa's march across Darien to the Pacific. He wandered through Yucatan, Peru and Brazil, with a pet monkey that died at last from overeating. He swam the Sea of Galilee, appeared in a movie called India Speaks, rode an elephant over the Alps. He grew older (he was 39 last January), but never grew...
...Edward W. Fox, assistant in History at Harvard, of Cambridge, Mass.; Hans W. Gatzke 1G, of Krefold, Germany; James E. Gunckel, Oxford, O., now graduate student at Miami University; Ralph S. Henderson now teaching at MacJannet Country Day School, St. Cloud, France; Henry R. Hope 1G, of Darien, Conn.; Andrew O. Jaszi 1G, of Oberlin, O.; Milan W. Jerabek, of Minneapolis, Minn., now teaching at University of Minnesota; Jean E. Jones, 1G, of Wichita, Kans...
Richard W. Beurtley, ex-40, has successfully completely an all-water trip from Darien, Connecticut, to Daytona Beach, Florida, in a seventeen feet canoe of unknown vintage...
Apprehended last year by the Coast Guard when he started on his trip for the first time, Heurtley started out again from Darien on October 27, and this time, unarrested, reached his destination safely...
Marriage Revealed. Barbara Josephine Guggenheim Lawson-Johnston Wettach, 33, heiress to the Guggenheim copper millions; and Henry Obre, 33, Manhattan grinding-wheel salesman; she for the third time, he for the first; month ago, in Darien, Conn...