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...morning, onetime (1929-33) Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams put on a pair of old sneakers, hopped into a Star Class yacht, beat the Naval Academy's champion small-boat skipper, Midshipman David Seaman, by 50 yd. in a 2½ mi. race in Annapolis Harbor. In the afternoon, President Roosevelt snuggled down into the referee's launch, streaked up the river from Annapolis to watch three crews, two of them the ablest in the East, race 1¾ miles down the Severn for the Adams Cup. Pennsylvania had beaten Princeton, Yale, Columbia. Navy had beaten...
...Lyman Wilbur, long, lean, pouch-eyed President of Stanford University and one-time (1929-33) Secretary of the Interior, president to replace Mrs. Belmont who resigned last June; 2) announced that it would move its main offices westward to San Francisco in order to be near (i.e. 350 mi.) the centre of cinema production. Said an ungrammatical Council bulletin...
...morning." Graduated from the University of Illinois in 1924, he enlisted in the Army Air Corps, resigned five years later to become a free-lance pilot and consultant. Best known as a racing pilot, he won first place and $15,000 in the 5,541-mi. All-America Flying Derby of 1930, beating such famed speed merchants as the late Lowell Bayles and Jimmy Wedell...
...ahead with its transpacific airway program, assured by the Post Office Department that Congress would provide $1,800,000 for the first year of operation -$35,000 for each weekly round-trip between California and China. At Wake Island, one of the operating bases in the projected 8,000-mi. airway, a temporary radio station set up on the beach went officially on the air for the first time, contacting California, Honolulu, Midway Island...
...registry of Lugene (swank Manhattan opticians) all list him as Frederic Grosvenor Carnochan. Always well off, he could afford to become an amateur ethnologist. During the past decade he concentrated on the Wanyamwesi, a long-nosed, curly-haired tribe of 4,000,000 members who inhabit 30,000 sq. mi. south of Lake Victoria (in Tanganyika Territory, which Premier Hertzog of the Union of South Africa fortnight ago suggested Great Britain should return to Germany's control...