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...water was about 20° warmer than usual (74°) and partly because the race had been shortened from 15 mi. to five, Swimmer Gambi not only finished but won, against 90 high-grade professionals, in the excellent time of 2 hr., 8 min., 55 sec. Hauled onto a float and wrapped in a towel, he shouted into a microphone: "I am happy to have won for Italy and Il Duce!" A crowd of 10,000 immediately stopped cheering and began to boo so loudly that the rest of Gambi's remarks about going back to Italy to join...
...major Bolshevik objective pursued without success ever since the fall of Tsardom: to float a fat Soviet loan abroad and get Bolshevik bonds regularly listed on an exchange outside Russia...
...South Platte and Republican Rivers. The hamlets of Max and Parks vanished entirely. At McCook, home of Senator Norris, the Pastime Amusement Park slipped into the Republican River, grown two miles wide. The power station was demolished. In the dark, townsfolk watched whole houses and barns float by on the boiling flood waters. The water stood five feet deep in the Burlington station at Red Cloud, and two Chicago-Denver trains were stalled by washouts...
Rowing the traditional Waban distance in much poorer time than that of any Float Night in history, the Weeks Memorial Bridge Boat Club, comprised principally of those Devilish Dunster Funsters, took a somewhat fishy looking victory over the polite Wellesley Senior, Junior, and Freshman boats yesterday...
...entire second half of April hobnobbing in hotel lobbies; perching on gilt chairs in improvised conference halls; rising to perfunctory votes of thanks; hoisting highballs in smoke-filled rooms; puffing after-dinner cigars while the tri-colored dessert melts, the ice-water turns tepid, the cigaret butts float in the coffee saucers, and the speaker of the evening warms to his subject of "Freedom of the Press." For the last half of April traditionally is the season when men of the Press come together to talk about their business...