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...Bernard. Its best speed over the 12-mile windward-leeward course was 31 min. 51 sec. Class B (250 ft.) was won by Su-Jac III, Pilot H. V. Fitzcharles of Lake Geneva, Wis. Class C (175 ft.): Holy Smoke III, Pilot Don Campbell of Delavan, Wis. Skeeter winner: Gale, Pilot Harry Nye of Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Ice Yachting | 2/8/1937 | See Source »

...dead reckoning on the crest of a 60-m.p.h. gale. In the four hours it took him to reach the Mississippi somewhere near St. Louis, three events broke the monotony of his 375-m.p.h. speed-two glimpses of land through the clouds, a brief flurry when his mask went askew. Not until he saw the long furrows of the Alleghenies did Flyer Hughes slant down in a long power dive to Newark. There, no one was aware of his coming until the crescendoing whine of his racing engine jerked heads aloft. Like an angry dragonfly, the little ship buzzed across...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Saddle Soar | 2/1/1937 | See Source »

...JOHN GALE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 4, 1937 | 1/4/1937 | See Source »

...Distressed Princeton underclassmen rely on John Gale Hun, who also runs the expensive Hun School (tuition: $1,800). Tutor Hun has a sizable staff, a man Friday in wiry John I. Harvey, who was Jack I. Horovitz when he graduated from Princeton in 1925. Princeton's comprehensive upperclass examinations cannot be easily crammed for. Hun's patrons are almost exclusively freshmen and sophomores. Princeton has never taken official notice of Tutor Hun, except to protect dullards from a flood of Hun mail by ruling three years ago that failures in courses should not have their names publicly posted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Councilors & Tutors | 12/14/1936 | See Source »

...Ruch, lf lf, Demeter Morgan, cf cf, Dowse Fitzpatrick, rf rf, Kaplan Rotter, sc KIRKLAND (22) LOWELL (2) Howe, c c, Snyder Kessler, p p, Cornell Walsh, 1b 1b, Cleveland Moser, 2b 2b, Viets Davis, 3b 3b, Webster Wills, ss ss, Brown Carr, lf lf, Scott Cusack, cf cf, Gale Elcock, rf rf, Finn Mayne, sc WINTHROP (7) DUDLEY (4) Turner, c c, Chart Rosenbloom, p p, Banner Hartstone, 1b 1b, Simon, B. Busch, 2b 2b, Rosenberg Gitt, 3b 3b, Simon, A. Bilodeau, ss ss, Soltz Pedrick, lf lf, Cohen Moos, cf cf, Edinburg Lewisohn, rf rf, Lewis Gruening...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: News from the Houses | 12/3/1936 | See Source »

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