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...Float Night Dies...
Harvard's free vacations for faculty members are no longer free. This year for the first time, the University will ask for a "Voluntary contribution" of $25 to pay for repairs on the float and dock of its summer house...
...remedy the mid-weeks hiatus, the sagacious free-loader spends much of his time on warm Spring afternoons just walking through House court-yards and the Yard. The sounds of a good party--tinkling glasses, sniggering girls, rearing male laughter--will float down to the moocher's ear and lead him to his filling-station. Entry is simple; a more request to use the telephone will suffice...
...controlled movie camera to photograph plants at 15-minute intervals. Now, at a feeding station outside an upstairs window, he is photographing birds. On weekends, he and his wife often fly to Bermuda where they have a hideaway, "Wreck House," supposedly built by pirates. There Greenewalt likes to "goggle" (float on the water and watch fish through goggles...
...lagoon. The first day was relatively uneventful: only three saved in the teeth of enemy gunfire. On the second day, soon after dawn, the Tang picked up three airmen off fortified Ollan Island; a little later, three more, seven miles to the east. Then a Navy float plane, out on a similar mission, found the sea too choppy to take off. The plane reached the Tang with eight more flyers, some straddled on the wings. All day the Tang ferried and fished. At dusk the last two dripping aviators were pulled aboard. Of 46 airmen who hit the water during...