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High over the Bay of Bengal sped a lone seaplane, bound for the coast of Burma. Looking down on the watery waste, the pilot beheld three other seaplanes, westbound. The man above was Major A. Stuart MacLaren, British Air Force; the planes below bore Lieutenants Smith, Wade and Nelson, of the U. S. A. It was the meeting of history's first round-the-globe air-racers, but the participants did not stop to exchange greetings...
...Broome, the advance officer of the British world fliers, arrived from the North at the Kurile Islands off Japan, after a two months' adventurous and turbulent voyage in the Canadian trawler Thiepval. Broome established bases on Behring Island, Attu and other places in the Aleutians in preparation for MacLaren's trans-Pacific flight. There was no doubt that even with the best of luck this is extremely dangerous territory. Martin's disappearance only served to emphasize its hazards. Broome left nothing undone to insure success although he called the undertaking "at long odds a gamble at best...
...MacLaren-his worst troubles are yet to be. (P. 30.) The throwing out food, instruments, clothing-a disgraceful sight. (P. 28.) Loud-speaking Germans who want their colonies back. (P. 10.) Old Gutenberg's largest and blackest headline. (P. 26.) 1 A bare-legged party leader. (P. 10.) Skilled laborers working day and night to complete a jet black tomb. (P. 11.) An ignorant family. (P. 6.) An avalanche of foreign physicians...
...MacLaren, British flier, half way across India last week, was forced down in Rajputana. His engine was so damaged that he needed three days before going on. The American world fliers were at Dutch Harbor in the Aleutian Islands, awaiting Commander F. L. Martin who was still at Chignik, the last stopping-point on the American continent. They have travelled a few hundred miles less than MacLaren, but they have almost covered the worst part of their itinerary and will now head to milder, southern climes. MacLaren's worst troubles...
Instructors for one year from September 1, 1924.--Albert Sprague Coolidge, A.B. '15, in Chemistry; Prentice Dearing Edwards, S.B., A.M. in Mathematics; John Leslie Hotson, Ph.D. '23 in English; Malcolm MacLaren, Jr., A.B. in Mathematics; and Norman Dunshee Scott, M.A., B.Sc. in Chemistry...