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...only links for men without their own transportation is ten minutes away at Fresh Pond at the end of the Huron Avenue trolley run in Cambridge. Here the course itself is well laid out, though short, with its physical condition and the people playing on it major objections...

Author: By Paul Sack, | Title: Sports of the Crimson | 5/6/1947 | See Source »

That's a Joke, Son. In Huron, S.Dak., sober-faced Clarence Richardson turned up in court to contest his father's will, which left the estate to whoever could best explain why men, life and the Bible are all a joke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 20, 1946 | 5/20/1946 | See Source »

...Michigan's Mackinac Island, the Lake Huron resort where automobiles are barred, was sprayed from stem to stern with DDT. The results were sensational: for the first time in memory, liverymen removed the summertime fly nets from their horses. Residents burned their flytraps in a big public bonfire celebrating the extinction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: War on Insects | 8/27/1945 | See Source »

...race became a roller-coaster scramble for the shelter of the Michigan shore. One yacht made it the hard way, running aground and breaking up. Another snapped her mainmast. Distress flares shot up. When noses were counted at dawn, 34 badly battered boats had made it back to Port Huron and points north. The other four had doggedly refused to give...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Three Sheets in the Wind | 7/30/1945 | See Source »

After putting 44 hours behind her, the Blitzen was becalmed off Bob-Lo Island, an exasperating 19 miles from the finish line. When she finally eased across the line, her winning time-48 hours, 16 min. -set a record for the 21-year-old Port Huron-to-Mackinac race. It was a repeat performance for the Blitzen, which won last year's race over smooth water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Three Sheets in the Wind | 7/30/1945 | See Source »

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