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...your relations with the police her?" asked Chadwick after a pause. When told of the so-called "riot" of last winter he laughed. "Oxford has been called the only place in England where the police are on good terms with the criminal class. A police helmet there is a popular and rather common student trophy. We choose our man knock his helmet off and promptly make away with it. Later we see that he is paid for his head piece...
Hearst. Mrs. William Randolph Hearst donned trousers and blouse, helmet and goggles, stepped into Lloyd Bertaud's Old Glory, which William Randolph Hearst is financing for a flight to Rome. From the plane she radioed her husband: "Flying over Long Island. I hope the boys reach Rome in Old Glory. I think this is a most wonderful ship. [Signed] Millicent." The Hearst press reported the event widely, including pictures of Mrs Hearst in overalls, blouse, goggles, helmet...
...Whiskery to victory in the Kentucky Derby, Jockey Linus ("Pony") McAtee has twice broken into the news in unconventional fashion. A fortnight ago, he won a one-horse race ("walkover") at Belmont Park, N. Y. Last week, he escaped death because he wore a metal and fibre helmet. He was riding the capricious two-year-old colt, Silenus, which bolted through a temporary fence and crashed in a heap against a permanent fence at Belmont Park. While struggling to crawl out from under Silenus, Jockey McAtee received a swift kick in the helmet, was knocked unconscious. At Roosevelt Hospital...
...week from a four-month fishing and observing expedition on the coral reefs of Haiti. In the scientific-romantic vein which characterizes his writings, he excited newsgatherers with stories of prowling on the ocean floor under 60 feet of water, clad in an ordinary bathing suit and diver's helmet equipped with air-and-telephone tube.? He dictated piscatorial descriptions to an assistant in a schooner above. Occasionally he scribbled fleeting impressions on a zinc plate with a lead pencil...
...Poydras, La., one Ted Herbert, deep sea diver, dived into the Mississippi, set off more dynamite at the Poydras Cut. The current pulled his diver's helmet over his head, almost drowned him. Diving a second time he discarded the helmet, and, as he had no other diving equipment dived naked like a South Sea Islander. Superstitious, Diver Herbert said that if he let his picture be taken, certain death would follow...