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...released, Commander Settle sat confidently atop the gondola and threw off ballast. A 55 m.p.h. wind swept the bag southeast across Ohio toward Washington. Near East Liverpool (Ohio) they were up 12,500 ft.; near Pittsburgh, up 49,000. At last, they scratched over 58,000 ft., began to descend, and while an all-night search for them was begun by Navy planes and land parties, landed near Bridgeton, N. J. They had not broken the Russian record, but they had sent the first U. S. balloon into the stratosphere...
...form- ed for the protection of Harvard Indifference. It feels that pep meetings and other stupid exhibitions are more suited to colleges whose pinciple claim to glory is football excellence. Harvard need not imitate her inferiors. Let us not revert to the silliness of a past era nor descend to the level of the jerkwater. Let us remain gentlemen, and let Harvard remain a place above such callowness." This statement was subscribed to by a committee of 12 students. The students were: John L. Burling '34, Thomas Marvell '35, David L. Krupsaw '34, Herbert E. Robbins '35, Just Lunning...
...justification to such a display of vulgarity or that I will in nay way bolster the NRA I difficult indeed to see. Actually, what is happening is simply that the NRA is sinking to the grubby level of the back-clapping, hand-wrenching Rotarian, and will presently descend to the more congenial state of shrieking hysteria; it will thus attain to a shrill crescendo of asininity. The effect of the whole thing is comparable to that produced by a firecracker exploding in a bowl of whipped cream; by this time the worthy General Johnson must feel something like a well...
...Dunster House. The towen lights were on, there were native spring chickens and Country Club ice-cream, and three long, candle-lit tables, at which stood 250 of Dunster House's finest, waiting patiently for the guest of honor, the imposing dignitaries, and associates who would gingerly descend the flight of steps from Professor Greenough's own lodgings. Just at this moment, the President walked into the dining room through the regular entrance on the court, which, ordinarily would have been perfectly proper had it not been Conant night, looked about pleasantly, and when no one payed the slightest attention...
...bundle of nerves. I guess I'm getting too old for these stunts." [He is 36.] Ill when he took off from Lympne, Eng land, Sir Charles suffered from lack of sleep. Typical excerpts from his log : 'Feel pretty sick. Had worst scare when forced to descend to 200 feet be cause I thought I was fainting. . . . Pos-sibly [tailwinds] are blowing higher up but am afraid to go up lest, feeling suddenly faint, I might be unable to reach the ground before passing...