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Lost--At or near Harvard Square, lady's silver watch and fob. Finder will be suitably rewarded by leaving same at a Garden street, Cambridge...
...stranger. Bugles blew men to quarters. Down along 650 feet of deck raced 1,300 warrant officers, petty officers, sailors, Royal Marines to jam themselves on the tiny stern deck abaft the anti-aircraft guns. A petty officer with a megaphone scrambled to the top of the stern range finder. "By the numbers, jump!" he bellowed. "One-two-three-HIPE!!" As one man. 1,300 seamen sprang in the air to land with a shattering crash directly over the cabin of "Ginger" Boyle...
...finish. Away at the barrier shot a bay gelding named Debenture with a pretty brunette in black & white silks on his back. The rider was Mrs. Geraldyn Redmond. With a generous lead to start, she rode Debenture hard to win by two lengths over Mrs. "Jock" Whitney on Range Finder, Mrs. Barney Balding finished third on Harold E. Talbott's Kummel. Favorites Halcyon and Pompeius gallumped in the ruck...
...moment after the finish excitable Range Finder ran away with Mrs. Whitney, threw her as he crashed through a rail fence, gashed himself badly...
Scouts. Col. Lindbergh, technical adviser to Pan American, had the job of inspecting prospective landing places, charting the upper air, studying the effects of the Magnetic Pole and Northern Lights on his plane's radio and direction-finder. In the latter chore-radio testing-he had the valuable help of his wife who has a "better sending fist" than Lindbergh himself. She holds a radio operator's license, can transmit 20 words per minute...