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Doubts were resolved, wonder ceased when the wires flashed word from Wales that Pilot Wilmer Stultz had guided the Friendship safely to a landing in the Burry inlet on the north side of the Bristol channel. Observed "Lady Lindy," casually: "We are short of gasoline." She was right. The plane had used the last gallon of fuel...
...stops there for an hour Saturday. But the President's attention is likely to be occupied not by realty but by the Flagler genius when, reaching Everglade station south of Miami, the train starts out on a long point to a station called Jewfish. There the railway crosses an inlet to Key Largo and begins a unique run, 100 shimmering miles southwest into the Gulf of Mexico, to "America's Gibraltar," "the only frost-free city in the U. S.," the southernmost U. S. port and by 300 miles the nearest U. S. city to Panama, Key West...
...Grenfell, a Marlborough-and-Oxford youth who had amplified his medical interneship by cruising the North Sea healing fishermen struck across the Atlantic to take his surgery to the white fishermen and Eskimos of Labrador. He built hospitals, co-operative stores and native industries in many a cove and inlet of that grisly coast. The Indian Harbor Hospital, founded in 1894, is about 200 miles north of Battle Harbor, where Dr. Grenfell began his work two years earlier. The Marabel was to have assisted, from the Indian Harbor base, the coastwise dispensary service long rendered by the Battle Harbor hospital...
...Rough water on Lake Cayuga kept the Harvard University and second crews from rowing over the course here today in preparation for their races with Cornell tomorrow afternoon. A north wind blew down the two-mile stretch. If the wind continues, the races will be rowed on the abbreviated inlet course, where the Crimson and Big Red eights practiced today...
...last visit to Ithaca was made three years ago. On that occasion the water on the regular course was unnavigable, and short races were rowed on the "inlet" over a course of about a mile, with Cornell winner in the darkness. For the last two years, Cornell has brouught big crews to Cambridge and rowed pathetically badly. This season is a different story, however. Under the new coach, James Wray, pre-war Harvard mentor, the Big Red crew situation is looking up, and visions are seen to a return of the glory of Cornell crews in the days on Courtney...