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Navy V. Columbia- On Manhattan's Harlem River, glazed with iridescent oil spots but for once free of driftwood, two crews sprinted away from a flagged line, heading downstream on the crest of a fast tide. In their hearts the hometown rooters had little faith that the Blue & White shell, containing three sophomores who had never been in a varsity race, could do much to the big Navy boatload. Over the smooth water to high bridge the boats kept abreast, but at the bridge MacRae Sykes, sharp-faced stroke, put the beat up. In a few strokes open water...
...floating branch and sank on Lake Windermere (TIME, June 23). Wales got no ride. Last week, with H. R. H. safely attending social functions in Brazil, Kaye Don drove Miss England II up the estuary of the Parana River, three miles of which Government launches had dragged for driftwood. On the last of three trips, he drove a mile and back at 103.49 m.p.h., a new record. In Miami, Gar Wood of Detroit, who had set the previous record last fortnight in Miss America IX at 102.256 nautical* m. p. h. commented: "We'll see about...
...Aires to race as a feature of the British Empire Trade Exposition. In order that Miss England II should not hit another log and go down with the Prince of Wales aboard, the Argentine Navy offered to sweep the three-mile course on the Parana River free of all driftwood...
...rudely fashioned of driftwood against the base of a cliff, Stubbendorff and his diggers found the clothed skeleton of Fraenkel...
...Dornier-Wal flew out of the northeast and over Manhattan's crowded Battery, twice circled the Statue of Liberty. Capt. von Gronau picked out one of the escort of police planes, followed it down to a landing in the midst of harbor traffic, deftly hurdled a menacing piece of driftwood, brought up within a stone's throw of the Battery seawall. The four men, in their five-year-old plane (which had already served the late Roald Amundsen in the Arctic and Capt. Frank Courtney in the Atlantic) had flown 4,670 mi. in 47 flying hours?nine days elapsed...