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Franklin William Olin stands six feet high, weighs 240 lb., and is one of the best known blackpowder men in the country. Last week Powderman Olin, in his 72nd year, put through a deal which once would have seemed incredible...
Thirty-four years ago powder-wise Mr. Olin founded Western Cartridge Co. in East Alton, 111. Soon the company was well entrenched in the munitions field and from time to time since the War it has set the pace for the industry, continually improving its products. Its most notable recent accomplishment was Super X shells, with a slow-burning powder to give shotguns a more even explosion, a shorter shot-string. Super X was developed in the company's laboratories by President Olin's son John, a vice president...
Though dull weather made the New York Yacht Club cruise, like several regattas this year, slightly disappointing, U.S. yachtsmen have enjoyed a lively summer. Instead of racing for the America's Cup, there was the transatlantic race, won by Olin J. Stephens' yawl Dorade which, still in British waters last week, also won the Cowes-Fastnet-Plymouth race. Gales made a majority of the boats in the Fastnet race seek port before the finish; they caused the second death of the year in British yachting when Col. C.H. Hudson, joint owner of Maitenes II was swept overboard...
...Dorade, 52-ft. yawl sailed by Olin J. Stephens II & crew of seven: a race from Newport, R. I. to Plymouth, England, in 17 days, 2 hr., 14 min. Shrewd, 22-year-old Skipper Stephens gambled on a northern course, caught following winds most of the way. Partner in a Manhattan firm of naval architects, he designed Dorade last year, is part owner with his father who was one of his crew. Second in the race was Richard F. Lawrence's Skål; third Paul D. Rust Jr.'s Amberjack II. William Roos's sloop Lismore...
...story of an Arctic egg hunt reached Pittsburgh last week. Month ago George Miksch Sutton, onetime Pennsylvania game commissioner, and John Bonner Semple, retired Sewickley, Pa. manufacturer of Navy ordnance* were 40 mi. north of Churchill on the western shore of Hudson's Bay. With them were Olin S. Pettingill of Bowdoin College and Bert Lloyd, Saskatchewan ornithologist. They were collecting birds, plants and insects. Competing with them was a party of the Canadian Ornithological Society. Hope of both groups was to be the first to find eggs of a Harris's sparrow...