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...awards honor the memory of Richard G. Ames '34 and Henry R. Ames '38, who gave their lives in an attempt to save their father from the seas off New-foundland during a transatlantic sailing race...
...coast. Edna ultimately suffered the fate of many girls who can't make up their minds: she wound up with a split personality. Over Cape Cod she divided into halves. She made her final schizophrenic landfall over Maine and shrieked into Canada's Maritime Provinces and New foundland. Casualties: 18 dead; damages: an estimated $50 million. Edna's indisputable claim to fame, however, was in the fact that she scared more people than she injured. Fifty million Americans, Bahamians and Canadians, living on or near Edna's path, kept an anxious eye on her meanderings through...
...Bases Sirs: Surely you are not in error, but it is my studied belief that your statement (TIME, May 8) "Bases in Newfoundland, Bermuda, Trinidad, British Guiana, etc. . . . were leased to the U.S. . . ." is wrong. The bases in New foundland and Bermuda were given to the U.S., those in the other W.I. islands were leased! Right or wrong...
They started at dawn, electing a direct course instead of the great circle over New Foundland and Ireland. Storms battered them southward from the start. 500 miles out they were sighted by a passenger ship. They were seen no more that day, that night. Crowds waiting at Le Bourget field, Paris, turned away, glum, morose...
...service to the State. But we may come to it. And why shouldn't we? The stones of Grub Street are still as flinty as they were in Johnson's day, when the adolescent Doctor was forced to hie him to eating-houses where the back of a New foundland dog served the patrons for a serviette. If prizes can rescue some native Arthur Machen from drudgery ? give comparative freedom and leisure for so much as a year to some unrecognized Sherwood Ander son?by all means let us have prizes...